English

Adjective

wellborn ‎(not comparable)

1. Of aristocratic or high-ranking birth
   • 1885, Annie Besant, Autobiographical Sketches:

     Of Scotch descent and wellborn, Thomas Scott had, as a boy, been a page at the French Court [<span title="; his manhood was spent in many lands, for he "was a mighty hunter", though not "before the Lord"">…] .

   • 2001 July 13, Ann Sterzinger, “Road Rage”, in Chicago Reader:

     Morris said Chicago's transit system responds primarily to the needs of "the rich and the wellborn."