highborn

American  

[hahy-bawrn] / ˈhaɪˌbɔrn /

adjective

1. of high rank by birth.

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highborn British  

/ ˈhaɪˌbɔːn /

adjective

1. of noble or aristocratic birth

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Etymology

Origin of highborn

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; see origin at high, born

Example Sentences

Score Studios , free Highborn HD , iPad Highborn HD is a turn-based strategy game, relying wholly on tactics and mild cunning rather than those old gaming favourites, reflexes and dexterity.

From The Guardian • Aug. 13, 2010

Beautiful Highborn that wert so foully hurled low!

From The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson by Coleridge, Stephen

Highborn geniuses, they tell me, have their idle visions as well as we working-men; and Oxford has seen of late years as wild Icarias conceived as ever were fathered by a red Republic.

From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Hughes, Thomas

Most Noble Highborn Prince, Most Highborn Prince, my last letter to Your Princely Excellency was dated May the 20th last from the Taefelbay near Cabo de bonne esperance with the ship Anna from England...

From The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765 by Heeres, J. E. (Jan Ernst)

Who that saw it will ever forget the wonderful victory of Carbine when he carried top weight, started favourite, and beat Forester's Highborn, and Correze, both outsiders, easily?

From The Sweep Winner by Gould, Nat