born

UK /bɔːn/ US /boɹn/

adj 1noun 1verb 1name 1

Definitions

adj

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

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.

noun

Alternative spelling of burn (a stream)

verb

Alternative spelling of burn (with fire etc.)

Collocations

(verb.)

ADV

prematurely

PREP

into

He was born into a family of musicians who encouraged his passion for playing the violin.

She was born of immigrant parents who worked hard to build a better life.

A child born to deaf parents often learns sign language as their first language.

with

My younger brother was born with red hair, just like our grandmother.

PHRASES

American, British, etc. born

My grandmother was a British-born nurse who worked in hospitals for forty years.

be born alive/dead, be born and bred/brought up/raised

My grandmother was born and raised in a small village in Japan before moving to the city.

be born blind, deaf, etc., be born out of wedlock/outside marriage

Thesaurus

Synonyms

Antonyms

unborn

Idioms & Phrases

born with a silver spoon in one's mouth

Born rich, or into a wealthy family.

Near-synonyms: born to the purple, to the manor born

born in a barn

In a past tense: criticizing the person to whom the phrase is directed for inappropriately, and usually neglectingly, leaving an exterior door or window open, considered ill-mannered.

Neither bothered to lock or shut the house's front or back doors. "It was like they had been born in a barn," she says.

there's a sucker born every minute

There will always be a great number of fools in the world who can be easily swindled.

born and bred

Showing characteristics of birth and upbringing, especially in relation to a particular location.

She is a born and bred New Yorker.

were you born in a tent

An admonishment to someone who has left a door open.

Example Bank

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

Wiktionary

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.

Wiktionary

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.

Wiktionary

He was born on July 28th, 1888.

Tatoeba · #6054

Have you visited the town where your father was born?

Tatoeba · #16738

Well do I remember the day you were born.

Tatoeba · #17794

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