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单词 high-born
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high-born

adjective
Having noble parents: a high-born Portuguese family...
  • Raised a Catholic, he came from a high-born family; his father was a rich timber merchant, and his mother a friend of Egypt's King Farouk.
  • Sensing a threat both to their property and their prerogative, the high-born gentlemen put an end to the little experiment in selfless utopianism.
  • Born Catholic Daisy O'Dwyer in County Tipperary, she later claimed descent from a high-born Protestant family.

Synonyms

noble, aristocratic, of noble birth, noble-born, well born, titled, patrician, blue-blooded, upper-class;
British county
informal posh, upper-crust, top-drawer
archaic gentle, of gentle birth
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