well-born

Adjective

Meaning

Born of a noble or respect able family; not of mean birth.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Alternative names

well born

Synonyms

grand patrician freeborn noble beautiful elite refined gentle aristocratic elegant polished cultured polite dignified courteous
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Antonyms

common low bourgeois naughty wild rough
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Examples

Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men." Diogenes Laërtius

My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal. Julius Evola

Tis colder outside than a well-born maiden's heart. Poul Anderson

Edmond Malone asserted that "his appearance at first sight impressed the spectator with the idea of a well-born and well-bred English gentleman." Source: Internet

However, in an early example of his cunning, Themistocles persuaded "well-born" children to exercise with him in Cynosarges, thus breaking down the distinction between "alien and legitimate". Source: Internet

The Carthaginians made a series of attempts to appease Rome, and received a promise that if three hundred children of well-born Carthaginians were sent as hostages to Rome the Carthaginians would keep the rights to their land and self-government. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

well-below-average frustrated chump well-beseen well-borer well-bound well-branched well-bred