Definitions for Born

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Spelling: [bawrn]

IPA: /bɔrn/

Born is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in Born (bnor).

Definitions for Born

noun

1. Max, 1882–1970, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1954.
2. any of the plantigrade, carnivorous or omnivorous mammals of the family Ursidae, having massive bodies, coarse heavy fur, relatively short limbs, and almost rudimentary tails.
3. any of various animals resembling the bear, as the ant bear.
4. a gruff, burly, clumsy, bad-mannered, or rude person.
5. a person who believes that market prices, especially of stocks, will decline (opposed to bull).
6. Informal. a person who shows great ability, enthusiasm, stamina, etc.:
7. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. either of two constellations, Ursa Major or Ursa Minor.
8. Informal. a player at cards who rarely bluffs.
9. (initial capital letter) Russia.

verb

1. a past participle of bear1 .

Idioms

1. born yesterday, naive; inexperienced:
2. bring to bear, to concentrate on with a specific purpose:
3. loaded for bear, Informal. fully prepared and eager to initiate or deal with a fight, confrontation, or trouble:

adjective

1. brought forth by birth.
2. possessing from birth the quality, circumstances, or character stated:
3. native to the locale stated; immigrated to the present place from the locale stated:
4. having to do with or marked by declining prices, as of stocks:

Verb phrases

1. bear down, to press or weigh down. to strive harder; intensify one's efforts: Nautical. to approach from windward, as a ship:
2. bear down on/upon, to press or weigh down on. to strive toward. to approach something rapidly. Nautical. to approach (another vessel) from windward:
3. bear off, Nautical. to keep (a boat) from touching or rubbing against a dock, another boat, etc. Nautical. to steer away. Backgammon. to remove the stones from the board after they are all home.
4. bear on/upon, to affect, relate to, or have connection with; be relevant to:
5. bear out, to substantiate; confirm:
6. bear up, to endure; face hardship bravely:
7. bear with, to be patient or forbearing with:

verb (used with object)

1. to hold up; support:
2. to hold or remain firm under (a load):
3. to bring forth (young); give birth to:
4. to produce by natural growth:
5. to hold up under; be capable of:
6. to press or push against:
7. to hold or carry (oneself, one's body, one's head, etc.):
8. to conduct (oneself):
9. to suffer; endure; undergo:
10. to sustain without yielding or suffering injury; tolerate (usually used in negative constructions, unless qualified):
11. to be fit for or worthy of:
12. to carry; bring:
13. to carry in the mind or heart:
14. to transmit or spread (gossip, tales, etc.).
15. to render; afford; give:
16. to lead; guide; take:
17. to have and be entitled to:
18. to exhibit; show:
19. to accept or have, as an obligation:
20. to stand in (a relation or ratio); have or show correlatively:
21. to possess, as a quality or characteristic; have in or on:
22. to have and use; exercise:
23. Stock Exchange. to force prices down in (a market, stock, etc.).

verb (used without object)

1. to tend in a course or direction; move; go:
2. to be located or situated:
3. to bring forth young or fruit:

Origin of Born

before 1000; Middle English; Old English boren (past participle of beran to bear¹), equivalent to bor- past participle stem + -en -en

Examples for Born

Little did I know that Lee had actually been born into a wealthy family.

Man was born into fear in that he was born into a world of which most of the energies were set against him.

A few months later, after their children were born, we visited the men and women again.

I asked her how her trainers, born and raised in Iran, have learned how to teach hip-hop.

You were born subject to fear as you were born subject to death, and that was an end of it.

The influential al Qaeda propagandist, who was born in New Mexico, died in a U.S. drone strike later that year.

Yung Lean was born Jonatan Leandoer Håstad in Belarus, before moving to Sweden at the age of 3.

Yet there are people, and I have talked with some of them, who remember that she was born.

"You must have been born under a lucky star, Robert," said the merchant.

If a chap's not born with the gift he's an ass to think he can acquire it.