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Highbrow   Listen
noun
highbrow  n.  A person of intellectual or erudite tastes; an intellectual.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Highbrow" Quotes from Famous Books



... appeals. The other day Mr. William F. McCombs, chairman of the National Committee which engineered a college president into the White House, gave this advice to our academic youth: "The college man must forget—or never let it creep into his head—that he's a highbrow. If it does creep in, he's out of politics." To which one might reply in Mr. McCombs's own dialect, that unless a man can make himself a force in politics (or at least in the larger life of the State) precisely by virtue of being a "highbrow," ...
— The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 • Various

... least they call it heart failure induced by an overdose, or some such claptrap. It's all right. We don't want to be worried with an inquest. But I guess Tuppence and I and even the highbrow Sir James have all got the ...
— The Secret Adversary • Agatha Christie



Words linked to "Highbrow" :   intellect, intellectual, colloquialism



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