to the manor born
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.79 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
From an upper class or wealthy family.
adj
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: born to the purple, born with a silver spoon in one's mouth"
- "In fact, he was to the manor born. He was a fifth-generation Washingtonian, born in the national capital on April 30, 1903; there he resided until his death on August 20, 1966."
- "None of these financiers was to the manor born. Cornelius Vanderbilt had to leave school at age eleven to help his father. Daniel Drew was born on a farm, and Jay Gould was paid two dollars a week as a blacksmith's assistant."
- "Wade Hampton was to the manor born. One of the largest landholders in the South, educated in the Southern gentlemanly tradition, skilled with guns and horses, courtly with women, experienced in politics, one would expect that he was cut from the same scarlet cloak as the dashing cavalryman he served under, J. E. B. (Jeb) Stuart."
- "Presently he arrived and mounted the granite boulder as if to the manor born."