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born
/boɹn/
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What does born mean?
verb
- past participle of bear; given birth to.
adjective
- Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.
noun
- Alternative spelling of burn (a stream)
More meanings (3)
verb
- Alternative spelling of burn (with fire etc.)
- (obsolete) past participle of bear in other senses.
proper noun
- A surname from English.
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IPA pronunciation
/boɹn/
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Wherever thern ship met ship of the First Born was a battle royal, and in this I thought I saw our salvation.
My lord, I was born about three of the clock in the afternoon, with a white head and something a round belly.
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The universe itself only came into being for Tess on the particular day in the particular year in which she was born.
Elnora, born among such scenes, worked eagerly, but to the city man, recently from a hospital, they seemed too good to miss.
It was not that mere physical admiration of beauty that is born of the senses and that dies when the senses tire.