HIGHBORN Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

highborn

adjective

ˈhī-ˈbȯrn

Definition of highborn

as in aristocratic

of high birth, rank, or station skeptics have argued that these dramatic masterpieces must have been written by someone more highborn than one William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon

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Recent Examples of highborn But his background is closer to that of George, the highborn son. — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2026 Fans from America to Europe to Australia bought his books and flocked to his one-man shows, and his potent doses of humor and hard truth enthralled both the highborn and the humble. — Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2025 Long shamed for being both mixed-race and illegitimate, Dieudonné needs a highborn bride to prove his worth in the court of Louis XVI. — Olivia Waite, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025 Sawai starred as Toda Mariko, a highborn woman with an important role to play in a brewing civil war among Japan’s ruling council of regents. — Joe Otterson, Variety, 16 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for highborn

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Around them, an aristocratic winemaker defines his legacy, a legendary maître d’hôtel seeks his heir, and a reverent wine critic pursues the sublime.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2026
By the 20th century, summer excursions to the Highlands were a fixture of the aristocratic calendar, with transatlantic visitors soon joining the English to shoot, fish, and feign indifference to horizontal rain.

— Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of aristocratic

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For an heir to the throne, however, marrying a woman without royal blood or a noble title was discouraged.

— Stefania Conrieri, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026
But, of course, Cullen will always be remembered as Optimus Prime, the leader of the noble Autobots in numerous iterations of Transformers lore.

— Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of noble

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