blue-blooded

3 definitions found

blue-blooded - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

  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

blue-blooded - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  blue-blooded
      adj 1: 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, blue-blooded, gentle,
             patrician]