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WELL BRED


Crosswords: WELL BRED

English words defined with "WELL BRED": Civily. (references)

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Modern Usage: WELL BRED

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Lyrics

So well bred (Jealousy; performing artist: Natalie Merchant)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: WELL BRED

AuthorQuotation

Daniel Defoe

A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behavior, is a creature without comparison.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: WELL BRED

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

At Hartfield, you have had very good specimens of well educated, well bred men.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translations: WELL BRED

Language Translations for "WELL BRED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

race (true-bred), nga familje e mirë (well born, well connected), i sjellshëm (amiable, bland, complaisant, courteous, courtly, delicate, discreet, fair-spoken, gallant, genteel, good, kind, kindly, mannerly, nice, polite, suave, well mannered, well-behaved), i edukuar (educated, fair-spoken, highbred, ladylike, mannerly, polite, thoroughbred, trained, well educated, well-conducted). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مهذب (civil, civilized, corrected, courteous, cultivated, cultured, discipliner, educated, educator, fair-spoken, gentleman, mannerly, polished, polite, preceptor, purified, rectified, refined, respectable, teacher, urbane, well mannered), ‏أصيل (evening, genuine, original, proper, purebred, quaint, sincere, thoroughbred, trueborn). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

чистокръвен (full-blooded, hot-blooded, pedigree, pure, purebred, straight-bred, thoroughbred, true-bred), от добро семейство (well born, well connected), благовъзпитан (genteel, well-conditioned), породист (highbred, pedigree, purebred, thoroughbred). (various references)

   

Czech

  

dobře vychovaný (well-behaved). (various references)

   

French

  

racé, poli (well-mannered), de bonne race, bien élevé (well mannered, well-brought up). (various references)

   

German

  

wohlerzogen (mannerly, well behaved, well mannered, well-behaved), gebildet (cultivated, cultured, educated, erudite, gentlemanly, learned, literate, polished, polite, refined, shaped, unprimitive, well read, well-informed). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καλήσ ανατροφήσ, καλοαναθρεμμένοσ (well fed). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מחונך (educated, gentleman). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nemes fajtájú. (various references)

   

Italian

  

beneducato (well-behaved). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ellway edbray

   

Portuguese

  

polido (attentive, cleanly cut, courtly, gentle, glossy, mannerly, neat, net, polished, polite, precise, shiny, sleek, sleeky, smooth, specular, urbane, well spoken), fino (braw, choice, dainty, delicate, dressy, exquisite, fine, gallant, gaunt, gentian, gentlemanly, gossamer, keen, knowing, lean, nice, Nobby, out and out, posit, refined, select, sharp, sheer, sleazy, slender, slim, smart, stylish, subtil, subtile, subtle, tactful, tasteful, tenuous, thin, well-made, wispy), de boas maneiras (genteel), de boa raça, cortês (chivalrous, civil, complimentary, courteous, debonair, mannerly, neighborly, neighbourly, parliament cake, polite, respectful, soft, suave, urbane), bem-educado (genteel, highbred, well mannered, well-behaved). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

pursânge (clean-bred, full-blooded, full-bred, pedigree, pedigreed, pure, thoroughbred, true born), politicos (attentive, civil, complaisant, complimentary, considerate, courteous, fair, genteel, gentlemanlike, mannerly, parliamentary, polite, politely, respectful), manierat (attentive, ceremonious, courteous, courteously, courtly, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, mannered, mannerly, well mannered, well-behaved), educat (educated, lettered), de rasã purã, cultivat (cultivated, refined), binecrescut (accomplished, genteel, gentle, gentleman, gentlemanlike, well educated). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

благовоспитанный (genteel), породистый (highbred, pedigreed, purebred, thoroughbred). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

dobro vaspitan. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pura sangre (blood horse, pureblood, purebred), de raza, culto (church service, cult, cultivated, cultured, educated, enlightened, learned, nice, service, worship, worship service), cortés (attentive, civil, complaisant, courteous, courtly, debonair, gallant, genteel, gracious, mannerly, polite, suave, urbane, well mannered, well-mannered), bien educado (cultured, ladylike). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

väluppfostrad (mannerly, well educated, well mannered, well-behaved, well-brought-up, well-educated, well-mannered), belevad (debonair, polite, urbane, well-bred). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

soylu (aristocrat, aristocratic, aristocratical, blue blood, 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), görgülü (cultivated, cultured, experienced, of good manners), cins (blooded, breed, cast, class, diversity, gender, genus, kind, pedigree, pedigreed, persuasion, pure blooded, pureblooded, purebred, quality, race, sex, species, stripe, type, variety), asil (aristocratic, aristocratical, blue blood, born in the purple, bottom, dignified, foundation, gently born, grand, ground, lineage, lordly, noble, of gentle birth, of noble birth, origin, royal, sublime, superior). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

гречний (orderly, well mannered, well-behaved), породистий (highbred, pure blooded, pure-bred, whole-bred). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: WELL BRED

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

liberali, liberalissimi. (various references)

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Anagrams: WELL BRED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-l-l-r-w"

-1 letter: dweller.

-2 letters: bedell, belled, brewed, lewder, reweld, welder, welled.

-3 letters: bedel, bedew, belle, bleed, brede, breed, dweeb, dwell, elder, rebel, rewed, weber, wedel.

-4 letters: beer, bell, bled, blew, bred, bree, brew, deer, dele, dell, dere, dree, drew, ewer, leer, lewd, rede, reed, reel, weed, weel, weer, weld, well, were.

-5 letters: bed, bee, bel, deb, dee.

 Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-l-l-r-w"
 

+1 letter: bridewell.

 

+2 letters: bridewells.

 

+4 letters: bewilderedly.

 

+5 letters: bewilderingly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: WELL BRED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 45 4C 4C      42 52 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01000101 01001100 01001100 00100000 01000010 01010010 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#69 &#76 &#76 &#32 &#66 &#82 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0045 004C 004C      0042 0052 0045 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

57394646236523938

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