borne

UK /bɔːn/ US /boɹn/

adj 1name 1

Collocations

ADJ.

above, cardinal, defamatory, good, high, soft, specific, still

VERB + BORNE

burden, cannot, haven't, order, playing, reach, winds

BORNE + NOUN

chairmen, children, fruit, group, passages, passion, sorrow

PREP.

in, on, out, up

ADV.

admirably, already, away, only

Definitions

adj

carried, supported.

In the last rays of the setting sun, you could pick out far away down the reach his beard borne high up on the white structure, foaming up stream to anchor for the night.

When, bright with purple and with gold, Come priest and holy Cardinal, And borne above the heads of all The gentle Shepherd of the Fold.

name

A surname.

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In the last rays of the setting sun, you could pick out far away down the reach his beard borne high up on the white structure, foaming up stream to anchor for the night.

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When, bright with purple and with gold, Come priest and holy Cardinal, And borne above the heads of all The gentle Shepherd of the Fold.

Wiktionary

Irving is further required, as a matter of practice, to spell out what he contends are the specific defamatory meanings borne by those passages.

Wiktionary

The brunt of criticism was borne by the chairmen.

Tatoeba · #20011

Sweet scents are borne on soft breezes.

Tatoeba · #21007

To all appearances, their actions haven't borne fruit.

Tatoeba · #38322

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