Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of humble birth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Born in a low condition or rank; -- opposed to
highborn .
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- adjective Alternative spelling of
low-born .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of humble birth or origins
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Examples
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Now I'm a goody dwarf lowborn who wants to help everyone and that just suits me fine.
weekly nathreee 2010
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First time through I played a male lowborn dwarven rogue who was basically 'chaotic good' if a bit ruthless at times (esp. toward rich people).
weekly nathreee 2010
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What he perceives as the hypocrisy of the actor Robbie Coltrane, who attended a fancy school in Scotland before reinventing himself as "a lowborn grease-monkey," inspires a rare, and comical, rant.
True Tales of a Happy Hypocrite Alexandra Mullen 2012
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Marcus saw a lowborn merchant pull a few hearty war-dog pups from a basket.
G'lder Curtis Hox 2011
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Helena, a lowborn beauty, serves as a gentlewoman in the household of the Countess of Rousillion.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Livia is the highborn conniver who facilitates both intrigues, and later falls for Bianca's lowborn husband, Leantio.
Theater review: Constellation Theatre's 'Women Beware Women' Celia Wren 2010
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Helena, a lowborn beauty, serves as a gentlewoman in the household of the Countess of Rousillion.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Everyone was waiting for the ‘lowborn scum’ to disgrace the service.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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Everyone was waiting for the ‘lowborn scum’ to disgrace the service.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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The subplots evolve around the fates of several individual soldiers of the Macht and a few other side characters: the young conscripts Gasca and Rictus of Isca, centurion Jason of Ferai, Vorus – the renegade general of the Assurian Empire, and Tyrin, the lowborn Kufr concubine of the upstart prince.
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