baseborn
Of humble origin
Baseborn means of low or humble birth, or illegitimate.
The word belongs to an older social vocabulary that distinguished nobility from common people: a baseborn servant, baseborn origins.
Applied to illegitimate children, it carries judgment about parentage: The king's baseborn son could not inherit the throne.
The term is archaic and literary.
Non-noble person
- peasantLow-status agricultural laborer
- serfBonded agricultural laborer
- plebeianOrdinary, unrefined person
- villeinFeudal tenant farmer
churl · humble · lowly · ignoble · rustic · yeoman · burgher · villager
Child of unmarried parents
- out-of-wedlockBorn to unmarried parents
- by-blowIllegitimate offspring
- misbegottenPoorly conceived or illegitimate
- spuriousFalse though appearing genuine
unwed · lovechild · paternity · birthright · stigma · disown · unrecognized · ancestry
commoner
Non-noble person
- peasantLow-status agricultural laborer
- serfBonded agricultural laborer
- plebeianOrdinary, unrefined person
villein · churl · humble · lowly · ignoble · rustic · yeoman · burgher · villager · tenant
bastard
Child of unmarried parents
- out-of-wedlockBorn to unmarried parents
- by-blowIllegitimate offspring
- misbegottenPoorly conceived or illegitimate
spurious · unwed · lovechild · paternity · birthright · stigma · disown · unrecognized · ancestry · lineage
- illegitimacybastard, illegitimate child, love child, illegitimate, bastardy
basebornhighborn
Of aristocratic birth
wellborn · noble · aristocratic · blue-blooded · high-born
base, based, bases, debasement, debased, debasing, debaser, baser, basest