Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

wellborn en · ADJ

Etymology

From well + born.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of aristocratic or high-ranking birth
    • 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:
    • Of Scotch descent and wellborn, Thomas Scott had, as a boy, been a page at the French Court[… 1885, Annie Besant, Autobiographical Sketches: