wellborn
adjEtymology 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: