• (RP) IPA: /ˈbɔːn/
• (America) IPA: /ˈbɔɹn/

1. past participle of bear#English|bear; given birth to.
2. (obsolete) past participle of bear#English|bear in other senses.

   • In some monasteries the severity of the clausure is hard to be born.

born (not comparable)

1. Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.
   • 1701 January (indicated as 1700)​, [Daniel Defoe], The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr, [London: s.n.], OCLC 606597370 ↗, part II, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924013179399;view=1up;seq=78 page 61]:

     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.

• French: né, née
• German: geboren
• Italian: nato
• Portuguese: nascido, nato, nado
• Russian: рождённый
• Spanish: nacido, nato

born (plural borns)

1. (Geordie) Alternative spelling of burn qual a stream

born (borns, present participle bornin; past bornt, past participle bornt)

1. (Geordie) Alternative spelling of burn qual with fire etc.