born

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔːn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔɹn/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
• Homophones: borne, bourn, bourne (most accents), bawn (non-rhotic accents)

From Middle English born, boren (often shortened bore), from Old English boren, past participle of beran (“bear, carry, bring forth”).

born

1. past participle of bear; given birth to, birthed.
2. (obsolete) past participle of bear in other senses.
   • Geddes

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

born (not comparable)

1. 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.

• borne

Dialectal variant of burn.

born (plural borns)

1. (Geordie) Alternative spelling of burn (a stream)

• The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, →ISBN

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

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

• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin,

• Brno

born f (plural bornen)

1. (dialectal) Obsolete form of bron.

• barn

born n

1. indefinite plural of barn