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• highbrows — n. intellectual, cultured person, refined person; pseudointellectual, snob adj. having a highly intellectual quality; highly cultured or refined; snobbish, haughty …   English contemporary dictionary

• Middlebrow — The term middlebrow describes both a certain type of easily accessible art, often literature, as well as the population that uses art to acquire culture and class that is usually unattainable. First used by the British satire magazine Punch in… …   Wikipedia

• highbrow — [[t]ha͟ɪbraʊ[/t]] highbrows 1) ADJ GRADED If you say that a book or discussion is highbrow, you mean that it is intellectual, academic, and is often difficult to understand. ...highbrow classical music... He presents his own highbrow literary… …   English dictionary

• highbrow — /ˈhaɪbraʊ / (say huybrow) noun 1. a person who has pretensions to superior taste in artistic matters. –adjective 2. of or relating to highbrows. 3. of or relating to that which highbrows approve of: highbrow music. Compare lowbrow. {US colloquial …  

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