born
English
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
- Homophones: borne, bourn, bourne (most accents), bawn (non-rhotic accents)
Etymology 1
From Middle English born, boren (often shortened bore), from Old English boren, past participle of beran (“bear, carry, bring forth”).
Verb
born
- past participle of bear; given birth to, birthed.
- (obsolete) past participle of bear in other senses.
- (Can we date this quote by Geddes and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- In some monasteries the severity of the clausure is hard to be born.
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Translations
be born — see be born
Adjective
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], “Part II”, in The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr, [London: s.n.], →OCLC, 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 terms
Translations
given birth to
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See also
Etymology 2
Dialectal variant of burn.
Noun
born (plural borns)
References
- Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
Verb
born (third-person singular simple present borns, present participle bornin, simple past and past participle bornt)
References
- Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
Anagrams
Dutch
Noun
born f (plural bornen)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Noun
born n
- indefinite plural of barn
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