born
 I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a baby is born
▪ Let me know as soon as the baby is born.
a child is born
▪ Most children at born in hospital.
a natural leader/a born leader (=someone who naturally has all the qualities needed to be a leader)
▪ He has the confidence of a born leader.
be born deaf
▪ If the mother gets the disease, her baby may be born deaf.
be born equal
▪ It is a myth that all men are born equal.
be born outside marriage (=be born when your parents are not married)
▪ Four in ten children are born outside marriage.
born and raised
▪ Camus was born and raised in Algeria.
born blind
▪ Beverley was born blind.
born loser
▪ The guy’s a born loser.
born to lead
▪ a man who was born to lead
born/delivered etc by caesarean
▪ Both her children were born by caesarean section.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
 ADVERB
again
▪ This is being born again to a new hope.
▪ You are born again, said the woman who had given me my wedding gown.
▪ Then when I die, I can not enter her body to be born again.
▪ Each day is new, and each day I am born again.
▪ The gift of becoming sons or daughters does not come through our being born, but through our being born again.
▪ The fundamentalists are saying, work hard, be born again, you can go to heaven.
▪ Repent, believe, be born again.
▪ The ability to disappear and reappear, to die and to be born again.
NOUN
baby
▪ Curled tight like an embryo that doesn't want to be born, like a baby who's had too much pain.
child
▪ To them was born another child, Malekith, who was to become the most hated of Elves.
▪ They prayed for a child, a son, and were so happy when he was born.
▪ S.-born children are i-se, or second generation.
▪ She knew that her daughter was completed by this child, that she felt she had been born to bear this child.
daughter
▪ On 26 November 1986 their only child was born, a daughter, T., the subject of these proceedings.
▪ He spoke about Hadassah's background as the Prague-born daughter of Holocaust survivors.
▪ It was into this lawless milieu that Devi was born, the second daughter of a low-caste illiterate farmer.
▪ Charles and Micki Browning, both hospital employees, stayed home with their prematurely born daughter.
▪ There two children were born, a daughter, Agnes, who soon died, and a son, Axel.
son
▪ Niklaus Andreas Lauda was born the son of a Viennese paper mill owner on 22 February 1949.
▪ Thebes was Dionysus' own city, where he was born, the son of Zeus and the Theban princess Semele.
▪ Charles's next child was born dead - a son.
▪ I was born the son of a woodman who chopped down trees in the forest and sold the wood for a living.
▪ An abortion is performed, or a son is born.
wedlock
▪ It's upsetting to find you were born out of wedlock.
▪ Long ago, an aunt told me that my grandmother wash born out of wedlock.
▪ Burns had fourteen known children, half of them born out of wedlock.
▪ Unlike the synonym, MAMzer, BENKert connotes love child, not one merely born out of wedlock.
▪ A baby born out of wedlock was a great sin, then, and a huge embarrassment to the family.
▪ A baby born out of wedlock was a horrible sin for which there was no forgiveness.
▪ I had to advise him that the father of a child born out of wedlock had few, if any, rights.
▪ Babies born out of wedlock are commonplace.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(as) to the manner born
▪ A lofty and spacious carriage, the G slips from rough country into a more courtly role as if to the manner born.
born out of wedlock
▪ A baby born out of wedlock was a horrible sin for which there was no forgiveness.
▪ Babies born out of wedlock are commonplace.
▪ Long ago, an aunt told me that my grandmother wash born out of wedlock.
▪ Unlike the synonym, MAMzer, BENKert connotes love child, not one merely born out of wedlock.
nobly born
▪ But Richard at first refused, arguing that he was as nobly born as his brother.
▪ For non-residents, other than the nobly born and well connected, it is less informative.
▪ She was rich and nobly born and powerful.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
newly
▪ A newly born child enjoys that status.
▪ If injury is negligently caused to a newly born babe, liability in negligence arises.
▪ The newly born goats were kept in a pen under her bed.
▪ When the cubs are very small they feed quite extensively on newly born rabbits.
▪ The newly born boy was wrapped in a ladies jump suit.
▪ All newly born tapirs are covered with stripes and spots as camouflage.
NOUN
baby
▪ Read in studio A nanny has been jailed after fracturing the skulls of two new born babies in her care.
▪ Useless information Perhaps the essential clue to dramatisation was given in the discovery that new born babies enjoy solving problems.
▪ In the 1950s and early 1960s infant mortality of the first born babies were higher than those of the second.
teacher
▪ Because Karajan was a born teacher, he was always interested in young musicians.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He seemed to be a born leader, someone who inspired confidence and loyalty.
▪ When I read his first essays I knew that he was a born writer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A newly born child enjoys that status.
▪ I judge you to be a born city person.
▪ Like rabbits, they are born blind but they do have some very fine body hair.
▪ Mr Waigel is a Bavarian born and bred who has little love for Bonn but none at all for the former Prussian capital.
▪ She left one dead, one born and two crippled for life, one way or the other.
▪ The newly born goats were kept in a pen under her bed.
▪ This meant Mr Packwood had to bottle feed him every three hours when he was first born.
born
I. born1 S1 W2 verb
1. be born
when a person or animal is born, they come out of their mother’s body or out of an egg:
▪ Forty lambs were born this spring.
be born in
▪ Swift was born in 1667.
be born at
▪ Then, most babies were born at home.
be born on
▪ I was born on December 15th, 1973.
be born into/to/of something (=be born in a particular situation, type of family etc)
▪ One third of all children are born into single-parent families.
be born with something (=have a particular disease, type of character etc since birth)
▪ Jenny was born with a small hole in her heart.
▪ I was born and raised (=was born and grew up) in Alabama.
be born blind/deaf etc (=be blind, deaf etc when born)
▪ a newly-born baby
▪ the queen’s firstborn son
be born lucky/unlucky etc (=always be lucky, unlucky etc)
Australian/French etc born (=born in or as a citizen of Australia etc)
► Do not say ‘I born’, ‘I have been born’, or ‘I am born’. Say I was born: I was born in Pakistan.
2. START EXISTING be born something that is born starts to exist:
▪ the country where the sport of cricket was born
be born (out) of (=as a result of a particular situation)
▪ The alliance was born of necessity in 1941.
▪ Bill spoke with a cynicism born of bitter experience.
3. born and bred
born and having grown up in a particular place and having the typical qualities of someone from that place:
▪ I was born and bred in Liverpool.
4. be born to do/be something
to be very suitable for a particular job, activity etc:
▪ He was born to be a politician.
5. I wasn’t born yesterday
spoken used to tell someone you think is lying to you that you are not stupid enough to believe them
6. there’s one born every minute
spoken used to say that someone has been very stupid or easily deceived
7. be born under a lucky/unlucky star
to always have good or bad luck in your life
8. be born with a silver spoon in your mouth
to be born into a rich family ⇨ natural-born
II. born2 adjective [ONLY BEFORE NOUN]
[Language : Old English; Origin : boren, past participle of beran; ⇨ bear1]
1. born leader/musician/teacher etc
someone who has a strong natural ability to lead, play music etc:
▪ the skill of a born actor
2. born loser
someone who always seems to have bad things happen to them
3. in all your born days
old-fashioned used to express surprise or annoyance at something that you have never heard about before
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