[
US
/ˈɫoʊˈbɔɹn/
]
[ UK /lˈəʊbɔːn/ ]
[ UK /lˈəʊbɔːn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
of humble birth or origins
a topsy-turvy society of lowborn rich and blue-blooded poor
How To Use lowborn In A Sentence
- The subplots evolve around the fates of several individual soldiers of the Macht and a few other side characters: the young conscripts Gasca and Rictus of Isca, centurion Jason of Ferai, Vorus – the renegade general of the Assurian Empire, and Tyrin, the lowborn Kufr concubine of the upstart prince. Paul Kearney - The Ten Thousand (Book Review)
- First time through I played a male lowborn dwarven rogue who was basically 'chaotic good' if a bit ruthless at times (esp. toward rich people). Weekly
- Now I'm a goody dwarf lowborn who wants to help everyone and that just suits me fine. Weekly
- Livia is the highborn conniver who facilitates both intrigues, and later falls for Bianca's lowborn husband, Leantio. Theater review: Constellation Theatre's 'Women Beware Women'
- Where was the stash of brandy bottles; the hidden box of dream-smoke herb so beloved of the laboring classes; the stash of gambling winnings or record of debts; the bundle of perfumed love letters from some cozening lowborn female looking to snare a Mageborn son? Tran Siberian
- a topsy-turvy society of lowborn rich and blue-blooded poor
- What he perceives as the hypocrisy of the actor Robbie Coltrane, who attended a fancy school in Scotland before reinventing himself as "a lowborn grease-monkey," inspires a rare, and comical, rant. True Tales of a Happy Hypocrite
- Livia is the highborn conniver who facilitates both intrigues, and later falls for Bianca's lowborn husband, Leantio. Theater review: Constellation Theatre's 'Women Beware Women'
- Slaves did not have surnames, and lowborn women frequently were not even granted a forename.
- Thus the clause, "things which are not" (are regarded as naught), is in apposition with "foolish ... weak ... base (that is, lowborn) and despised things. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible