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LOWBORN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lowborn mean?
• LOWBORN (adjective)
The adjective LOWBORN has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: LOWBORN used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of humble birth or origins
Context example:
a topsy-turvy society of lowborn rich and blue-blooded poor
Similar:
base; baseborn; humble; lowly (of low birth or station ('base' is archaic in this sense))
common; plebeian; unwashed; vulgar (of or associated with the great masses of people)
folksy (belonging to the common people, especially in regard to speech patterns, attitudes, etc.)
ignoble; ungentle; untitled (not of the nobility)
Also:
low-class; lower-class (occupying the lowest socioeconomic position in a society)
Antonym:
noble (of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times)
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