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Definition: Blue Blood |
Blue BloodNoun1. A member of the aristocracy. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Blue Blood (See page 149, True Blue.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: Blue BloodSynonyms: aristocrat (n), patrician (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Nobility | Noun: nobility, rank, condition, distinction, optimacy, blood, pur sang, birth, high descent, order; quality, gentility; blue blood of Castile; ancien regime. |
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Crosswords: Blue Blood |
| Specialty definitions using "blue blood": Sang Bleu. (references) |
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Screenplays | There, the guy with the blue blood. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) Blue blood isn't immune to gangrene (Society Doctor; writing credit: Theodore Reeves; Michael Fessier) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Blue Blood (1973) Captain Blue Blood (1935) Blue Blood (1925) White and Blue Blood Red (1917) Blue Blood But Black Skin (1916) | |
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Expression using "blue blood": blue blood of Castile. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
blue blood | 48 |
alapaha blue blood bulldog | 21 |
alapaha blue blood bull dog | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "blue blood"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | aristokrat (aristocrat, gentleman, gentlemen, patrician). (various references) | |
Arabic | نسب أصيل, نبالة (nobility), النبيل (baron, lord, noble, nobleman, peer), النبلاء (gentlefolk). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | синя кръв, аристократическо потекло. (various references) | |
Czech | modrá krev. (various references) | |
French | sang bleu, race originelle, nobles, noble. (various references) | |
Hebrew | בן אצילים. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kékvér, kék vér, előkelő származás (family). (various references) | |
Italian | sangue blu. (various references) | |
Manx | fuill reeoil, fuill ooasle. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ueblay oodblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sangue azul, descendência aristocrática. (various references) | |
Russian | родовитость (gentility), аристократ (aristocrat). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | plava krv. (various references) | |
Spanish | sangre azul (nobleman). (various references) | |
Swedish | blått blod. (various references) | |
Turkish | soylu (aristocrat, aristocratic, aristocratical, born in the purple, genteel, gently born, grand, high, noble, noble blood, of gentle birth, of good family, patrician, pedigreed, princely, silk stocking, thoroughbred, titled, truebred, u, well born, well bred), asil kan (noble blood), asil (aristocratic, aristocratical, born in the purple, bottom, dignified, foundation, gently born, grand, ground, lineage, lordly, noble, of gentle birth, of noble birth, origin, royal, sublime, superior, well bred), asalet (dignity, nobleness, peerage, quality). (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: blueblood. | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-d-e-l-l-o-o-u" | |
-2 letters: beblood. | |
-3 letters: bolled, boobed, boodle, boulle, buboed, bulbed, bulbel, bulled, double, duello, lobbed, lobule. | |
-4 letters: blood, blued, booed, boule, lobed, looed, lubed, obole. | |
-5 letters: bedu, bell, bleb, bled, blob, blub, blue, bode, bold, bole, boll, bolo, boob, bubo, bulb, bull, dell, dole, doll, duel, dull, leud, lobe, lobo, lode, loud, lube, lude, oboe, obol. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-d-e-l-l-o-o-u" | |
+1 letter: bluebloods. | |
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