lowborn
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of lowborn
First recorded in 1175–1225, lowborn is from the Middle English word lohiboren. See low 1, born
Example Sentences
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Egg, who is revealed to be Prince Aegon V Targaryen, has never known brotherly love or witnessed goodness in action until he meets Dunk, one of the lowest of the lowborn.
From Salon • Jun. 20, 2026
But Jan. 28, 1922, was also emblematic of the city itself, a place where out-of-town politicians and foreign diplomats lived among native-born locals, where the well-born and the lowborn could share armrests.
From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2022
But Ballad offers new insight into how the Capitol’s leading families viewed the rest of Panem, especially anyone “district,” like Coriolanus’ rich but lowborn friend, Sejanus.
From Slate • May 22, 2020
As Thomas Cromwell, More’s prosecutorial nemesis, Todd Cerveris has thuggishness enough but not the bristling intelligence that elevated the lowborn Cromwell to power.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2019
The first thing her father had done on his ascension wgs to expel his own father’s grasping, lowborn mistress from easterly Rock.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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