born
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɔːn/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɔɹn/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
- Homophones: borne, bourn, bourne, Bourne (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger), bawn (in non-rhotic accents)
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English born, boren (often shortened bore), from Old English boren, past participle of beran (“bear, carry, bring forth”).
VerbEdit
born
- past participle of bear; given birth to, birthed.
- (obsolete) past participle of bear in other senses.
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- In some monasteries the severity of the clausure is hard to be born.
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TranslationsEdit
be born — see be born
AdjectiveEdit
born (not comparable)
- Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.
- 1701 January (indicated as 1700), [Daniel Defoe], The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr, [London: s.n.], OCLC 606597370, part II, page 61:
- I'll make it out, deny it he that can, / His Worship is a True-born Engliſhman, / In all the Latitude that Empty Word / By Modern Acceptation's understood.
- 1942, Storm Jameson, Then we shall hear singing: a fantasy in C major:
- I ought really to have called him my sergeant. He's a born sergeant. That's as much as to say he's a born scoundrel.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
given birth to
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See alsoEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Dialectal variant of burn.
NounEdit
born (plural borns)
ReferencesEdit
- The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, →ISBN
VerbEdit
born (third-person singular simple present borns, present participle bornin, simple past and past participle bornt)
ReferencesEdit
- Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
AnagramsEdit
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PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
NounEdit
born f (plural bornen)
Norwegian NynorskEdit
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
born n
- indefinite plural of barn