1.
[syn: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician]
The 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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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]