highborn

[ hahy-bawrn ]

adjective

1. of high rank by birth.

highborn

/ ˈhaɪˌbɔːn /

adjective

1. of noble or aristocratic birth

Word History and Origins

Origin of highborn¹

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

Example Sentences

Clarke felt that the violence against her highborn character, sold into marriage with a Dothraki warlord, strengthened Daenerys.

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Laugh at early passion ye who will; a highborn boy madly in love with a lowly ginger-beer girl!

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Half an hour later, Haward rose from his chair and bowed low as to some highborn and puissant dame.

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Young, fair, and highborn, I may not choose on whom I will bestow my love!

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Cloelia, a highborn maiden sent among them, escaped at night and on horseback swam across the foaming Tiber to Rome.

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Are those noble souls, the highborn and beautiful Valeria, the good and gentle Callirho, exposed to such appalling perils?

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