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3 definitions found
for baseborn
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Baseborn \Base"born`\, a.
1. Born out of wedlock. --Gay.
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2. Born of low parentage.
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3. Vile; mean. "Thy baseborn heart." --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
baseborn
adj 1: of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this
sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble
(or lowly) birth" [syn: base, baseborn, humble,
lowly]
2: illegitimate [syn: base, baseborn]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
31 Moby Thesaurus words for "baseborn":
base, bastard, below the salt, cockney, common, commonplace, false,
fatherless, homely, humble, illegitimate, low, lowborn, lowbred,
lowly, mean, misbegotten, miscreated, natural, nonclerical,
ordinary, plain, plebeian, rude, shabby-genteel, spurious,
supposititious, third-estate, ungenteel, unwashed, vulgar
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