as in aristocratic
of high birth, rank, or station
the wellborn men among the colonists had no experience with physical labor
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Rosewood Schloss Fuschl, meanwhile, is located in the former hunting lodge of the Prince-Archbishops of Salzburg, and its Munich branch sits at the former Bavarian State Bank headquarters and the adjacent Palais Neuhaus-Preysing, originally an aristocratic residence from the 1700s.—
Tianwei Zhang,
Footwear News,
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Federalist critics in Congress argued the colonnades looked aristocratic.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
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Researchers finally confirmed the noble identity of skeletal remains first discovered over a hundred years ago.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Nov. 2025
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Guiteau, though, is a lot less noble than Garfield, and a lot less humble.—
David Bianculli,
NPR,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Wellborn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wellborn. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.
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