born

CEFRA2

/bɔːn/

adjective · verb

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In plain English

01
adjective
Brought into life by birth.
02
adjective
Extra detail
Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.

Examples

Have you visited the town where your father was born?
He was born on July 28th, 1888.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 4
Parts of speech: 2
Citations: 5

Also pronounced

/boɹn/

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

past participle of bear; given birth to.
past participle of bear in other senses.

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In context

She was born in the fifties.
Although not born in the country, she qualifies for nationality through her grandparents.
Born in 1937, I spent my early childhood in Spain.

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Citations

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In some monasteries the severity of the clausure is hard to be born.
1784, Thomas Sheridan, Life of Dr. Swift, Section I
If I had not persuaded Harriet into liking the man, I could have born any thing.
1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 286
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
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
“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

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Origin

adjective

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”).