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Highbrow   /hˈaɪbrˌaʊ/   Listen
Highbrow

noun
1.
A person of intellectual or erudite tastes.






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"Highbrow" Quotes from Famous Books



... President McCosh. He spoke with a broad Scotch accent and was in every sense a literalist. Late in the evening Mr. Beaman, a very brilliant lawyer and partner of Evarts and Choate, who was president of the Harvard Alumni Association, said to me: "These proceedings are fearfully prosaic and highbrow. When you are called, you attack President McCosh, and I will defend him." So in the course of my remarks, which were highly complimentary to Princeton and its rapid growth under President McCosh, I spoke of its remarkable success in receiving gifts and legacies, which ...
— My Memories of Eighty Years • Chauncey M. Depew



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



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