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Definition von highborn im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- Of, pertaining to, or befitting people of high social standing
If anyone in the highborn sport known as thoroughbred horse racing has swagger these days, it is Baffert.
- Of high social standing as a result of having been born a member of an upper-level social class
He is a career rather than a conviction politician, but too highborn to be written off as a mere scaler of the greasy pole. He is a scion of the class that, deep down, believes it was born to rule.
- Born a member of an upper-level social class (although not necessarily retaining high social standing)
Mrs Monteith was able to tell her son about their high-born slave ancestor because he had left a memoir.
- Of superior or premium quality; magnificent; expensive
Gearhart is worth taking a bit of time to ogle the highborn homes along the backroads near the beach.
- {a} come of high or noble extraction
- {s} wellborn, of good family, of noble birth
- Of noble birth
- If someone is highborn, their parents are members of the nobility
- belonging to the peerage; "the princess and her coroneted companions"; "the titled classes"