Meaning of BASEBORN
| Pronunciation: | | 'beys'born
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- [adj] (archaic) illegitimate
- [adj] of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth"
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| | Synonyms: | | base, humble, illegitimate, lowborn, lowly |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Base"born`\, a.
1. Born out of wedlock. --Gay.
2. Born of low parentage.
3. Vile; mean. ``Thy baseborn heart.'' --Shak.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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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