English Explanatory Dictionary

born

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. past participle of bear; given birth to.
  2. past participle of bear in other senses.
adj
  1. Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.
noun
  1. Alternative spelling of burn (a stream)
verb
  1. Alternative spelling of burn (with fire etc.)
name
  1. A surname from English.

Pronunciation

/bɔːn/ /boɹn/ [bo̞ɹn] en-us-born.ogg /bɔːɹn/

Word forms

born borns bornin bornt

Etymology

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”).

Related words

borne né née

Derived words

aborn aborning afterborn all one's born days baseborn base-born be born last week be born yesterday born again born-again born-again virgin born-alive born and bred born at night but not last night born digital born-free born in a barn born in a mill born in the purple born in the vestry born killer born leader bornless born loser bornness born on the 4th of July born on the Fourth of July born sleeping born tired born to the purple born with a silver spoon in one's mouth born yesterday dead-born deadborn dragonborn earthborn firstborn first-born foreign-born forest-born freeborn me born full-born hagborn hedgeborn hellborn hell-born high-born highborn homeborn in all one's born days in one's born days I was born in ... last-born lastborn liveborn low-born middleborn misborn naked as the day one was born
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