blue blood

See also: blueblood and blue-blood

English

Alternative forms

blue-blood

Etymology

Calque of Spanish sangre azul.

Noun

blue blood (countable and uncountable, plural blue bloods)

(uncountable) Noble or aristocratic ancestry.
(countable) An aristocrat.

Derived terms

blue-blooded

Translations

noble or aristocratic ancestry

Bulgarian: синя кръв f (sinja krǎv)
Czech: modrá krev (cs) f
Dutch: adellijk (nl), blauw bloed
Galician: sangue azul (gl) m
Greek: γαλαζοαίματος (el) (galazoaímatos)
Hungarian: kékvér
Kazakh: ақсүйек (aqsüyek)

Kyrgyz: аристократ (ky) (aristokrat), ак сөөк (ky) (ak söök)
Portuguese: sangue azul (pt)
Romanian: sânge albastru n
Russian: голуба́я кровь (ru) f (golubája krovʹ), бе́лая кость (ru) f (bélaja kostʹ) (lit:white bone)
Slovak: modrá krv (sk)
Spanish: sangre azul (es) m
Tagalog: dugong bughaw, dugong mahal

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