'Blue-blooded' definitions:
Definition of 'blue-blooded'
From: WordNet
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Blue-blooded'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'blue-blooded'
From: GCIDE
- 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