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Definition of low-born in English: low-bornadjective Born to a family that has a low social status. 出身低微的 a retinue of low-born soldiers Example sentencesExamples - Oddly enough for a fairly low-born seventeenth-century working scriptwriter from the rural outback, Shakespeare is better known today than many of his contemporaries.
- A low-born peasant maid cures the king of France, who promises her choice of husband but the man she chooses rejects her.
- She is a low-born girl with aspirations to the upper classes - bluntly put, she's a tough little gold digger, and she knows it.
- Confronted with depleted royal finances in Scotland, James deployed a board of low-born but able court administrators called the Octavians, and sold enough titles to near-double the Scots peerage from forty-nine to ninety-two.
- And Henry, then in France, screamed to his troops in pure frustration, ‘What idle and coward knaves have I nourished as vassals, that faithless to their oaths, they suffer their lord to be mocked by a low-born priest!’
- He seemed old for his age, carried himself with a confidence that I would never feel, as if he didn't know he was poor, or low-born.
- Above all, he came from the south, and so could win back to the Democrats those many southerners who had voted for the similarly amusing, reassuring, interesting and low-born Reagan.
- In fact, portrait painting at the time provided one of the most reliable routes to social advancement - especially for people who were low-born as she was - and she made full use of it throughout her long life.
- French subjects, high-born or low-born, were hanging on to their safety by a thread.
- She is a woman of her time - a low-born person who uses her sexuality to navigate her way through society.
- Pompey sniffed at the low-born Julius, who ignored the deliberate affront to his parentage.
- He always offers something juicy for his low-born audience to ogle, be it the crown jewels or the many messy decapitations.
Synonyms humble, lowly, low-bred, low-ranking, plebeian, proletarian, peasant, poor
Definition of low-born in US English: low-bornadjectiveˈlō ˈˌbôrnˈloʊ ˈˌbɔrn Born to a family that has a low social status. 出身低微的 a retinue of low-born soldiers Example sentencesExamples - French subjects, high-born or low-born, were hanging on to their safety by a thread.
- Above all, he came from the south, and so could win back to the Democrats those many southerners who had voted for the similarly amusing, reassuring, interesting and low-born Reagan.
- A low-born peasant maid cures the king of France, who promises her choice of husband but the man she chooses rejects her.
- Confronted with depleted royal finances in Scotland, James deployed a board of low-born but able court administrators called the Octavians, and sold enough titles to near-double the Scots peerage from forty-nine to ninety-two.
- And Henry, then in France, screamed to his troops in pure frustration, ‘What idle and coward knaves have I nourished as vassals, that faithless to their oaths, they suffer their lord to be mocked by a low-born priest!’
- He always offers something juicy for his low-born audience to ogle, be it the crown jewels or the many messy decapitations.
- She is a woman of her time - a low-born person who uses her sexuality to navigate her way through society.
- Oddly enough for a fairly low-born seventeenth-century working scriptwriter from the rural outback, Shakespeare is better known today than many of his contemporaries.
- Pompey sniffed at the low-born Julius, who ignored the deliberate affront to his parentage.
- In fact, portrait painting at the time provided one of the most reliable routes to social advancement - especially for people who were low-born as she was - and she made full use of it throughout her long life.
- She is a low-born girl with aspirations to the upper classes - bluntly put, she's a tough little gold digger, and she knows it.
- He seemed old for his age, carried himself with a confidence that I would never feel, as if he didn't know he was poor, or low-born.
Synonyms humble, lowly, low-bred, low-ranking, plebeian, proletarian, peasant, poor
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