well-born

adjective

1. having been born into a wealthy or upper-class family

Example Sentences

His well-born characters spoke as if they had been transplanted against their will from a Henry James novel to the later 20th century.

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Appointed to turn the Yale School of Drama into something more than an academy for well-born thespians, he modernized the training of theater artists by assembling a faculty of leading artists and uncompromising intellectuals.

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But they were also politicians, self-serving and ambitious, often well-born mediocrities flying high above their general level of talent.

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Well-born Hawaiians celebrate their connections and ancestry with organizations such as the Kaahumanu Society, named for Kamehameha I’s wife.

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Mr. Malcolm is known for being rich, well-born and kind of a jerk, as evidenced by the titular list he’s compiled — a compendium of all the qualities he deems necessary in a wife.

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Related Words

• courtly 
• dignified 
• elegant 
• haughty 
• noble 
• patrician 
• silk-stocking 
• stylish 
• well-bred