wellborn

adj

wellborn

adj

Etymology From well + born.

1

Of aristocratic or high-ranking birth

  • Of Scotch descent and wellborn, Thomas Scott had, as a boy, been a page at the French Court[…1885, Annie Besant, Autobiographical Sketches:
  • Morris said Chicago's transit system responds primarily to the needs of "the rich and the wellborn."2001 July 13, Ann Sterzinger, “Road Rage”, in Chicago Reader:

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