well-bred
See also: wellbred
English
Alternative forms
Adjective
well-bred (comparative better-bred or more well-bred, superlative best-bred or most well-bred)
- (of animals) Of good breed.
- (by extension) Well-mannered and refined because of a good upbringing and education.
- 1986, Marc Polonsky, Russell Taylor, USSR, From an Original Idea by Karl Marx, Faber and Faber, →ISBN:
- Ideally you should relax—though well-bred English people do no feel entirely at ease in a room full of naked strangers beating one another.
Translations
of good breed
well-mannered and refined
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Further reading
- “well-bred”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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