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well-born

/wel-bawrn/US // ˈwɛlˈbɔrn //

生得好的,生得好,家境殷实,家境殷实的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : born of a noble or highly esteemed family.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Usually the wellborn .

    • : wellborn persons collectively: the pride and assurance of the wellborn.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inaristocratic

Examples

  • The best comparison here for an American audience is, well, Internet stuff.

  • Then add in all bored people, as well as people whose job it is to report on celebrities.

  • The influential al Qaeda propagandist, who was born in New Mexico, died in a U.S. drone strike later that year.

  • The well, ghost or no ghost, is certainly a piece of history with a bold presence.

  • In front of this strange structure are two blank-faced, well-dressed models showing off the latest in European minimalism.

  • Mrs. Wurzel was quite right; they had been supplied, regardless of cost, from Messrs. Rochet and Stole's well-known establishment.

  • The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.

  • The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.

  • To reproduce the impulse born of the thought—this is the aim of a psychological method.

  • Before he could finish the sentence the Hole-keeper said snappishly, "Well, drop out again—quick!"