baseborn

3 definitions found

baseborn - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Baseborn \Base"born`\, a.
     1. Born out of wedlock. --Gay.
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     2. Born of low parentage.
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     3. Vile; mean. "Thy baseborn heart." --Shak.
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baseborn - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  baseborn
      adj 1: of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this
             sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble
             (or lowly) birth" [syn: base, baseborn, humble,
             lowly]
      2: illegitimate [syn: base, baseborn]

baseborn - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "baseborn":
     base, bastard, below the salt, cockney, common, commonplace, false,
     fatherless, homely, humble, illegitimate, low, lowborn, lowbred,
     lowly, mean, misbegotten, miscreated, natural, nonclerical,
     ordinary, plain, plebeian, rude, shabby-genteel, spurious,
     supposititious, third-estate, ungenteel, unwashed, vulgar