Aristocrat vs Highborn - What's the difference?
aristocrat | highborn |
One of the aristocracy, nobility, or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble (originally in Revolutionary France).
A proponent of aristocracy; an advocate of aristocratic government.
* 1974 : (2nd edition, revised; Penguin Classics; ISBN 0140440488), Translator’s Introduction, pages 51 and 53:
(archaic) Of high social standing as a result of having been born a member of an upper-level social class.
* 1596 , , King John , act 5 sc. 2,
* 1672 , , "The Righteous Man's Excellency" in A plea for the Godly , Thomas Parkhurst, page 95,
* 1781 , , "Waller" in Lives of the Poets ,
* 1857 , The Virginians , ch. 63,
* 1920 , , The Rescue , ch 4,
* 2007 , Lesley White, "
(archaic) Born a member of an upper-level social class (although not necessarily retaining high social standing)
* 1848 , , The History of England from the Accession of James II , volume 5, ch. 23,
* 1996 , Peter F. Ainsworth, "'The Letter Killeth': Law and Spirit in Marie De France's Lay of Le Fresne''," ''French Studies , volume L, no. 1 (Jan.), page 5,
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Of, pertaining to, or befitting people of high social standing.
* 1670 , Richard Crashaw, "To the Queen's Majesty on Twelfth-day" in Steps to the temple; The delights of the Muses; and, ''Carmen'' Deo Nostro , Herringman (London),
* 1820 , , The Cenci , act 2, sc. 2.2,
* 1996 , Jayne M. Blanchard, "Cherry Jubilee: New artistic director Joe Dowling sees the comedy in Chekhov and intends to bring a lighter 'Cherry Orchard' to the Guthrie Stage," St. Paul Pioneer Press , 17 June, p, 8B,
* 2002 , Kevin B. Blackistone, "Baffert trained for the spotlight," The Dallas Morning News , 28 May,
(figuratively) Of superior or premium quality; magnificent; expensive.
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As a noun aristocrat
is one of the aristocracy, nobility, or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble (originally in revolutionary france).As an adjective highborn is
(archaic) of high social standing as a result of having been born a member of an upper-level social class.aristocrat
English
(Aristocracy)Noun
(en noun)- Professor Fite, in The Platonic Legend , deprecates earlier idealization, and finds Plato to be an aristocrat , something of a snob, and the advocate of a restrictively organized society.
- Plato was, as has so often been observed, temperamentally an aristocrat . And he believed that the qualities needed in his rulers were, in general, hereditary, and that given knowledge and opportunity you could deliberately breed for them.
Hyponyms
* See alsohighborn
English
Alternative forms
* high-bornAdjective
(-)- I am too high-born to be propertied,
- To be a secondary at control.
- It is not for Kings to drink wine, nor for Princes strong drink. It becomes not them who are highborn to be intemperate.
- His acquaintance with this high-born dame gave wit no opportunity of boasting its influence; she was not to be subdued by the powers of verse, but rejected his addresses, it is said, with disdain.
- The young Irishman was not a little touched and elated by the highborn damsel's partiality for him.
- Was he not Rajah Hassim and was not the other a man of strong heart, of strong arm, of proud courage, a man great enough to protect highborn princes?
Face of Tories' new deal—Gordon Brown is enjoying a honeymoon now," The Australian , 14 July,
- He is a career rather than a conviction politician, but too highborn to be written off as a mere scaler of the greasy pole. He is a scion of the class that, deep down, believes it was born to rule.
- The selfish, base, covetous, father-in-law was not at all desirous to have a highborn beggar and the posterity of a highborn beggar to maintain.
- The references to the lady's long-standing affection for her loyal, high-born servant girl provide a succinct intimation that the lady herself is not a wholly repellent character.
Travelling to his African home" Church Times , UK, 9 Mar, iss. 7513,
- Mrs Monteith was able to tell her son about their high-born slave ancestor because he had left a memoir.
- In this illustrious throng, your lofty flood
- Swells high, fair confluence of all highborn Blood.
- I should have then
- Been trained in no highborn necessities
- Which I could meet not by my daily toil.
- Dowling says that most performances of Chekhov plays have been filtered through translations into a British highborn sensibility.
- If anyone in the highborn sport known as thoroughbred horse racing has swagger these days, it is Baffert.
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- The tires are highborn Pirelli P Zeroes in appropriately majestic sizes.
Oregon Coast Travel Tips: Complete Tour of Seaside," beachconnection.net , 18 July,
- Gearhart is worth taking a bit of time to ogle the highborn homes along the backroads near the beach.