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)

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

Derived terms

• blue-blooded (blue-bloodedness)

Translations

noble or aristocratic ancestry

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

aristocrat

• German: Blaublüter m, Blaublüterin f
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