noble ancestry
Aristocratic family line
Noble ancestry refers to descent from aristocratic families—those with hereditary titles, lands, or elevated social rank.
Someone who claims noble ancestry asserts that their family tree includes dukes, earls, barons, or similar titled figures.
The phrase often carries connotations of pride or pretension: She never let anyone forget her noble ancestry.
- high bornOf noble ancestry
- earlBritish hereditary noble rank
- bloodlinesLines of hereditary descent
- coat of armsHereditary symbolic emblem
- dukeHighest-ranking nobleman
lineage · pedigree · viscount · aristocracy · progenitor · peerage · dynasty · baroness · forebears · monarchy · genealogy · marquess · feudal lord · patrimony · heraldry · family tree · descendant · gentry
social class origin
noble ancestryhumble origins
Unpretentious early circumstances
common stock · baseborn · servant class · common descent · serfdom