Word definition: born

Etimology


From Middle English born, boren, borne, iborne, from Old English boren, ġeboren, from Proto-West Germanic *boran, *gaboran, from Proto-Germanic *buranaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *beraną (“to bear, carry”), equivalent to bear +‎ -en. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gebooren (“born”), West Frisian berne (“born”), Dutch geboren (“born”), German geboren (“born”), Swedish boren (“born”).

verb


born

past participle of bear; given birth to.

(obsolete) past participle of bear in other senses.

Examples


Although not born in the country, she qualifies for nationality through her grandparents.

In some monasteries the severity of the clausure is hard to be born.

If I had not persuaded Harriet into liking the man, I could have born any thing.

adjective


born (not comparable)

Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.

Examples


In the United States, information describing the operation of nuclear weapons is born secret.

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.

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.

“Your desert boots are fitted slip-fashion at the ankles. Who told you to do that?”"It . . . seemed the right way.""That it most certainly is."And Kynes rubbed his cheek, thinking of the legend: "He shall know your ways as though born to them."

noun


born (plural borns)

(Geordie) Alternative spelling of burn (a stream)

verb


born (third-person singular simple present borns, present participle bornin, simple past and past participle bornt)

(Geordie) Alternative spelling of burn (with fire etc.)

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