noble blood
Hereditary elite status
Noble blood refers to aristocratic ancestry or lineage—the inherited status of belonging to a ruling or titled class.
The phrase treats nobility as something carried in the bloodstream, passed from generation to generation: Only those of noble blood could inherit the throne.
It often implies inherent qualities supposedly accompanying high birth, though this assumption invites skepticism: Noble blood doesn't guarantee noble character.
- aristocracyRule by hereditary elite
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- pedigreeRecord of descent
- bluebloodPerson of noble birth
- royal familyReigning monarch's relatives
royalty · dynasty · ruling class · heritage · good breeding · birthright · lordship · highborn · silver spoon · old money · thoroughbred · crown · throne · peerage · ancestry · family tree · gentility · heraldry
- royaltyking, queen, prince, princess, kings
- lineageancestry, royal dynasties, dynasty, genealogy, family line
- nobilityking, queen, prince, princess, duke
- royal heritagebirthright, crown jewels, heir apparent, hereditary titles, primogeniture
- Royal Lineagebloodlines, heir apparent, heiress, line of succession, descendants
- blood lorebloodletting, ritual purity, animal sacrifice, purification rites, purification rituals
noble bloodcommon ancestry
Related through past generations
lowborn · baseborn · humble origins · peasantry · the masses
noble, blood, nobility, nobly, nobleness, ennoble, ennoblement, nobleman, noblewoman