bornverb
uk/bɔːn/us/bɔːrn/be born
More examples
- Their baby was born last December.
- As soon as the baby is born he'll start to take an interest in the world around him.
- Soon after it was born, the calf got up and tried to stand on its shaky legs.
- He was born in the small town of Castleford, in Yorkshire.
- Their baby was born prematurely and weighed only one kilogram.
A2 to come out of a mother's body, and start to exist:
She was born in 1950.
We saw a lamb being born.
Diana was born into an aristocratic family.
Ann was born and brought up in Delaware.
having started life in a particular way:
The toll of babies born with AIDS is rising.
Stevie Wonder was born blind.
C2 formal or literary If an idea is born, it starts to exist.
born of sth formal
existing as the result of something:
With a courage born of necessity, she seized the gun and ran at him.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Obstetrics: birth
- antenatal
- bear
- birth defect
- born
- breech
- C-section
- caesarean
- childbirth
- contraction
- delivery
- give birth idiom
- induce
- maternity ward
- midwifery
- obstetric
- posh
- prenatal
- puerperal
- rooming-in
- section
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Creating and producing
Origins and sources
Idiom(s)
born and bred
born with a silver spoon in your mouth
not be born yesterday
wish you had never been born
bornadjective
uk/bɔːn/us/bɔːrn/having a natural ability or liking:
a born writer/athlete
[ + to infinitive ] I felt born to take care of animals.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Innate and congenital
- birth
- born and bred idiom
- congenital
- descend
- descend from sth
- heritable
- inborn
- inbred
- inclined
- inherit
- inheritance
- innate
- instinct
- instinctive
- native
- natural