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high·brow

   [hahy-brou]
noun
1.
a person of superior intellectual interests and tastes.
2.
a person with intellectual or cultural pretensions; intellectual snob.
3.
the crestfish.
adjective
4.
Also, high·browed. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a highbrow.

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Origin:
1895–1900; high + brow

Related forms
high·brow·ism, noun

Synonyms
4. intellectual, scholarly, cultured; bookish, snobbish, pseudointellectual.

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highbrow
"person of superior intellect and taste," 1902, back-formation from high-browed (adj.), which is attested from 1891, from high + brow (cf. also lowbrow).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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highbrow definition


  1. n.
    an intellectual person; a person with refined tastes. (Compare this with lowbrow. See also longhair.) : The highbrows usually congregate in there.
  2. mod.
    having to do with an intellectual or a person with refined tastes. : Pete is sort of highbrow, but he's an okay guy.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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