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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. A past participle of bear1.
  2. adj. Brought into life by birth.
  3. adj. Brought into existence; created: A new nation was born with the revolution.
  4. adj. Having from birth a particular quality or talent: a born artist.
  5. adj. Destined, or seemingly destined, from birth: a person born to lead.
  6. adj. Resulting or arising: wisdom born of experience.
  7. adj. Native to a particular country, region, or place. Often used in combination: Irish-born; Southern born and bred; Boston-born.
  8. idiom. born yesterday Naive or ignorant. Used in negative constructions: Of course I can use a computer; I wasn't born yesterday.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Possessing from birth the quality or character stated: as, a born poet; a born fool.
  2. Innate; inherited; produced with a person at birth: as, born wit; born dignity: in both senses opposed to acquired after birth or from experience.
  3. Often abbreviated to b.
  4. See bone.

Wiktionary

  1. v. Past participle of bear; given birth to.
  2. adj. Well suited to (some behaviour or occupation), as though from birth.
  3. n. Geordie alternative spelling of burn. A stream.
  4. v. Geordie alternative spelling of burn. With fire.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. Brought forth, as an animal; brought into life; introduced by birth.
  2. Having from birth a certain character; by or from birth; by nature; innate.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. brought into existence
  2. n. British nuclear physicist (born in Germany) honored for his contributions to quantum mechanics (1882-1970)
  3. adj. being talented through inherited qualities

Etymologies

  1. Dialectal variant of burn. (Wiktionary)

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