lowborn

Of peasant stock

Lowborn describes someone born into a family of low social rank or status—the opposite of nobility or aristocracy.

The term belongs mainly to historical or fantasy contexts: A lowborn servant could never marry into the royal family.

In contemporary use, it sounds deliberately archaic or literary.

ancestry

commoner

Non-noble person

peasantLow-status agricultural laborer
serfBonded agricultural laborer
vassalLand-holding sworn subordinate

ignoble · plebeian · undistinguished · obscure · nameless · unknown · unheralded · anonymous · unhonored · untitled

social

underclass

Lowest socioeconomic group

working-classManual laborers as group
proletarianWage laborer, no capital
disadvantagedLacking social or economic resources

unprivileged · poor · impoverished · destitute · humble · meek · menial · servile · subordinate · inferior

feudal

peasantry

Rural working class

serfdomFeudal bound labor
villeinageFeudal tenant bondage
bondsmanOne who posts bail

thrall · crofter · tenant · vassal · farmhand · fieldhand · plowman · tiller · laborer · toiler

Categories

populacethe masses, common folk, ordinary people, general public, hoi polloi
social rankstatus, rank, nobility, class, peerage
social ranksking, queen, emperor, empress, noble
statusstatus, prestige, ranking, reputation, elite
class labelsaristocrat, beggar, bourgeois, commoner, elite
commonerscommoner, commoners, peasant, peasants, common people

Opposites

social class at birth

lowbornhighborn

Of aristocratic birth

noble · wellborn · aristocratic · blue-blooded · patrician

Family

low, born, newborn, lowly, lowbrow, firstborn, lower-class, highborn, freeborn

Familiarity: Top 500,000
Profile: Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G