highborn

[ hahy-bawrn ]

/ ˈhaɪˌbɔrn /

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adjective

of high rank by birth.

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Origin of highborn

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

Words nearby highborn

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How to use highborn in a sentence

Clarke felt that the violence against her highborn character, sold into marriage with a Dothraki warlord, strengthened Daenerys.
'Game of Thrones' Sexual Politics|Jace Lacob|June 5, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Laugh at early passion ye who will; a highborn boy madly in love with a lowly ginger-beer girl!
The Fitz-Boodle Papers|William Makepeace Thackeray
Half an hour later, Haward rose from his chair and bowed low as to some highborn and puissant dame.
Audrey|Mary Johnston
Young, fair, and highborn, I may not choose on whom I will bestow my love!
Comic Tragedies|Louisa M. Alcott

Cloelia, a highborn maiden sent among them, escaped at night and on horseback swam across the foaming Tiber to Rome.
Ancient Rome|Mary Agnes Hamilton
Are those noble souls, the highborn and beautiful Valeria, the good and gentle Callirho, exposed to such appalling perils?
Valeria|William Henry Withrow

British Dictionary definitions for highborn

highborn

/ (ˈhaɪˌbɔːn) /

adjective

of noble or aristocratic birth

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