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Pronunciation
- /bɔːn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /bɔːn/ non-rhotic
- /boɹn/ (General-American)
- [bo̞ɹn] (General-American)
- (US) audio
- /bɔːɹn/ rhotic
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-der. Proto-Germanic *buranaz Proto-West Germanic *boran Old English boren, ġeboren Middle English born, boren, borne, iborne English born 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”).
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.
“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."
1965 October 1, Frank Herbert, “Book I: Dune”, in Dune, Philadelphia, Pa.: Chilton Book Company; [Toronto], Ont.: Thomas Nelson & Sons, →OCLC, page 108: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.
1942, Storm Jameson, Then we shall hear singing: a fantasy in C major: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.
1701 January (indicated as 1700), [Daniel Defoe], “Part II”, in The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr, [London: s.n.], →OCLC, page 61:In the United States, information describing the operation of nuclear weapons is born secret.
a born leader
Deriveds
not know one is born · born again · wellborn · no one is born a master · to the manner born · middleborn · born-free · freeborn · trueborn · were you born in a tent · all one's born days · stillborn · be born last week · bornness · born tired · baseborn · sky-born · hagborn · natural-born · me born · forest-born · noble-born · still-born · aborning · one's father was born before one · misborn · seaborn · woman-born-woman · born digital · newborn · low-born · twice-born · full-born · deadborn · thirdborn · born-again virgin · secondborn · born sleeping · born and bred · born killer · odalborn · be born yesterday · in one's born days · in all one's born days · born leader · hellborn · quickborn · virgin-born · born in the purple · dragonborn · last-born · naked as the day one was born · born in a barn · unborn · aborn · highborn · nextborn · born-again · born-alive · foreign-born · firstborn · hell-born · dead-born · outborn · born on the 4th of July · born to the purple · to the manor born · born in a mill · born in the vestry · born with a silver spoon in one's mouth · hedgeborn · base-born · twinborn · reborn · twin-born · high-born · there's a sucker born every minute · lastborn · born yesterday · liveborn · slaveborn · true-born · I was born in ... · there's one born every minute · afterborn · well-born · homeborn · bornless · first-born · new-born · onlyborn · born on the Fourth of July · born at night but not last night · native-born · born loser · earthborn · womyn-born-womyn · preborn
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Translations (80)
non fǿddr (given birth to) · ca nat (given birth to) · rm naschieu (given birth to) · id lahir (given birth to) · vec nato (given birth to) · it nato (given birth to) · sh ројен (given birth to) · ist nato (given birth to) · sl rojen (given birth to) · nn fødd (given birth to) · sh rojen (given birth to) · ur پیدا (given birth to) · hu született (given birth to) · uk приро́джений (given birth to) · ka დაბადებული (given birth to) · ur پیدا شدہ (given birth to) · is fæddur (given birth to) · ko 난 (given birth to) · non alinn (given birth to) · sh ро̏ђен (given birth to) · nb født (given birth to) · pl narodzony (given birth to) · sh rȍđen (given birth to) · fur nassût (given birth to) · tg мутаваллид (given birth to) · sv född (given birth to) · ny -badwa (given birth to) · ca nascut (given birth to) · ro născut (given birth to) · es nacido (given birth to) · mk роден (given birth to) · da født (given birth to) · lld nascù (given birth to) · ru роди́вшийся (given birth to) · ru урождённый (given birth to) · rm naschì (given birth to) · de geboren (given birth to) · hu -szülött (given birth to) · ta பிறவி (given birth to) · kk туған (given birth to) · sq lindur (given birth to) · oc nascut (given birth to) · sk rodený (given birth to) · sc nassiu (given birth to) · yi געבוירן (given birth to) · non -kundr (given birth to) · fr né (given birth to) · cs rozený (given birth to) · ja 生まれた (given birth to) · ar مَوْلُود (given birth to) · bg роде́н (given birth to) · scn natu (given birth to) · be наро́джаны (given birth to) · cmn 出生 (given birth to) · ru рождённый (given birth to) · uk поро́джений (given birth to) · el γεννημένος (given birth to) · sq le (gheg) (given birth to) · fa متولد (given birth to) · rm naschiu (given birth to) · hi जाया (given birth to) · scn nasciutu (given birth to) · uk наро́джений (given birth to) · sc nasciu (given birth to) · rm nat (given birth to) · uk уро́джений (given birth to) · pt nado (given birth to) · non borinn (given birth to) · nl geboren (given birth to) · rup amintat (given birth to) · dlm nascoit (given birth to) · fi syntynyt (given birth to) · sc naschidu (given birth to) · pt nascido (given birth to) · pl urodzony (given birth to) · pt nato (given birth to) · ka შობილი (given birth to) · ko 태어난 (given birth to) · fur našût (given birth to) · es nato (given birth to)