Usually means: Refined through good upbringing, educated.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word well-bred:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. well-bred: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. well-bred: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. well-bred, well-bred: Collins English Dictionary
  4. well-bred: Vocabulary.com
  5. Well-bred, well-bred: Wordnik
  6. well-bred: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. well-bred: Wiktionary
  8. well-bred: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. well-bred: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. well-bred: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. well-bred: Dictionary.com
  12. Well-bred: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. well-bred: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. well-bred: Rhymezone
  15. Well-bred: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. well-bred: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. well-bred: Free Dictionary
  18. well-bred: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. well-bred: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. well-bred: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. well-bred: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. well-bred: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  (of animals) Of good breed.
adjective:  (by extension) Well-mannered and refined because of a good upbringing and education.

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