baseborn

1. 1.

   of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)

   “baseborn wretches with dirty faces”

   “of humble (or lowly) birth”

   Synonymsbasehumblelowly

   Similarlowborn
2. 2.

   illegitimate

   Synonymsbase

   Similarillegitimate

   archaism

Questions about baseborn

What does baseborn mean?

baseborn means "of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in baseborn?

baseborn has 3 syllables: ba-se-born. The stress falls on "ba".

What is another word for baseborn?

Close synonyms include base, humble, lowly, base. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is baseborn a common word?

baseborn is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.