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wellborn

/wel-bawrn/US // ˈwɛlˈbɔrn //

优秀,优秀的,优秀者,优秀的人

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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
as ingentle
Antonyms

Examples

  • Wellborn, comfortably trained, healthy and easy-natured, the world had always turned its pleasant side to him.

  • No one could better express than he did, when playing Wellborn, both pride of birth and pride of character.

  • Not so, my boy; there is no disgrace in being less wellborn—it is only that one possesses a few privileges the less.

  • This varlet, Wellborn, lives too long, to upbraid me With my close cheat put upon him.

  • And yet your good solicitorship, and rogue Wellborn, Were brought into her presence, feasted with her.