blue blood
Noble or aristocratic ancestryNoble or aristocratic ancestry.
» Spiders have blue blood.
У пауков синяя кровь.
У павуків блакитна кров.
Павуки мають блакитну кров.
Meaning
3 senses(uncountable)Noble or aristocratic ancestry.
blaues Blut
голуба́я кровьgolubája krovʹ
(countable)An aristocrat.
Blaublüter, Blaublüterin
(countable, uncountable)Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue, blood.
Octopuses and squids are examples of animals that have blue blood.
- a member of the aristocracy
Examples
10 sentencesSpiders have blue blood.
У павуків блакитна кров. — deniko
ruУ пауков синяя кровь. — EugeneGS
Not everyone can have blue blood.
I already knew I am a blue blood.
He's a blue blood.
ruОн голубых кровей. — mrtaistoi
We all can't be blue bloods.
Translations
8 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 2
Origin
Calque of Spanish sangre azul (compare also French sang bleu), probably in reference to thCalque of Spanish sangre azul (compare also French sang bleu), probably in reference to the blue-hued veins more easily seen on the skin of White people—particularly the highclass ones, whereas the skin of lowclass/peasantry Caucasians (who would often be toiling away under the sun) would naturally tan in order to protect itself from UV rays, thus losing its visible veins.
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Forms
plural: blue bloodsSynonyms
2 synonyms- a member of the aristocracy:aristocratpatrician
Word family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable