born

Meanings

Verb

• ; given birth to.
• in other senses.
• Alternate spelling of burn

Adjective

• Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.

Noun

• Alternate spelling of burn

Origin

• From Middle English born, boren, borne, iborne, from Old English boren, ġeboren, from Proto-West Germanic *boran, *giboran, from Proto-Germanic *buranaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *beraną, equivalent to bear + -en. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gebooren, West Frisian berne, Dutch geboren, German geboren, Swedish boren.
• Dialectal variant of burn.