blue blood

1. 1.

   a member of the aristocracy

   Synonymsaristocratpatrician

   Broaderleader

   Narrowerbaronetbrahmanfemale aristocratHighnessmale aristocratprinceprincessrajarani

   Part ofnobility

Questions about blue blood

What does blue blood mean?

blue blood means "a member of the aristocracy".

What is another word for blue blood?

Close synonyms include aristocrat, patrician. 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 blue blood a common word?

blue blood 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.