as in aristocrat
a man or woman of high birth or social position
one need not be a blue blood to enjoy the amenities at the Royal Crown Hotel
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Recent Examples of blue blood
Many blue bloods don’t seem to be blinking as college football’s roster investment battles enter new territory.
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Sam Khan Jr., New York Times, 1 May 2025
That’s been the Cougars’ trademark and what brought them back down 64-55 in the Final Four against tournament blue bloods Duke with two minutes left to play.
—Tom Tapp, Deadline, 7 Apr. 2025
The Big Ten blue bloods here, No. 3 seed Wisconsin and No. 5 seed Michigan, flew in after slugging it out in the conference title game on Sunday.
—Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 19 Mar. 2025
Several players had transferred out after the sub-.500 season in 2024, including Matthew Wood, a first-round NHL draft pick and high scoring forward who went to hockey blue blood Minnesota, and goalie Arsenii Sergeev, who went to Penn State.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 31 Mar. 2025
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Sam Khan Jr., New York Times, 1 May 2025
That’s been the Cougars’ trademark and what brought them back down 64-55 in the Final Four against tournament blue bloods Duke with two minutes left to play.
—Tom Tapp, Deadline, 7 Apr. 2025
The Big Ten blue bloods here, No. 3 seed Wisconsin and No. 5 seed Michigan, flew in after slugging it out in the conference title game on Sunday.
—Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 19 Mar. 2025
Several players had transferred out after the sub-.500 season in 2024, including Matthew Wood, a first-round NHL draft pick and high scoring forward who went to hockey blue blood Minnesota, and goalie Arsenii Sergeev, who went to Penn State.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 31 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blue blood
Noun
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Bellucci plays Giulio’s mother, a woman from the central Italian region of Umbria – which is where Bellucci comes from in real life – who is married to a Sicilian aristocrat.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
29 July 2025
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This wealthy municipality west of Lisbon was a turn-of-the-century haunt for aristocrats in search of its therapeutic thermal waters, before finding wartime fame in the 1940s as a den of espionage on both sides thanks to Portugal’s neutrality.—
Zoë Dare Hall,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
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However, to prevent the glass furnaces from causing fires, the nobles exiled the glassmakers – under penalty of death – to the island of Murano.—
Peter Mullner,
The Conversation,
3 July 2025
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Landscape paintings and portraits of nobles jostled for attention alongside historical paintings and imagined scenes from Shakespeare’s plays.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 July 2025
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“Blue blood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blue%20blood. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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