Blue-blooded

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Blue blood \Blue blood\ (bl[=u]"bl[u^]d`), n.
     1. a member of the nobility or aristocracy, or a person of
        high social status.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. the quality of status that qualifies one as a {blue


        blood}; -- used metaphorically, as "They have blue blood
        in their veins.".
        -- {Blue"-blood`ed}, adj.
        [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  blue-blooded \blue-blooded\ adj.
     of aristocratic birth and refined upbringing.
  
     Syn: aristocratic, coroneted, gentle, highborn, patrician,
          titled, wellborn, upper-class.
          [WordNet 1.5] Blue bonnet

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  blue-blooded
       adj : belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or
             aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic
             Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue
             family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy";
             "of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the
             American South"; "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic
             features"; "patrician tastes" [syn: {aristocratic}, {aristocratical},
              {blue}, {gentle}, {patrician}]