wellborn

See also: Wellborn and well-born

English

Etymology

well +‎ born

Adjective

wellborn (not comparable)

Of aristocratic or high-ranking birth
- 1885, Annie Besant, Autobiographical Sketches‎:
  Of Scotch descent and wellborn, Thomas Scott had, as a boy, been a page at the French Court […] .
- 2001 July 13, Ann Sterzinger, “Road Rage”, in Chicago Reader‎:
  Morris said Chicago's transit system responds primarily to the needs of "the rich and the wellborn."

Anagrams

Brownell

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