borne

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Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
9
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/bɔːn/
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/bɔːn/ · /boɹn/ · [bo̞ɹn] · /boːɹn/ · /boən/

Definition of borne

3 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (form-of, participle, past)past participle of bear
    “Miranda: I ſhould ſinne / To thinke but Noblie of my Grand-mother, / Good wombes haue borne bad ſonnes.”
    ““Can't you understand that love without confidence is a worthless thing—and that had you trusted me I would have borne any obloquy with you.[…]””
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verb

  1. (form-of, participle, past)past participle of bear
    “Miranda: I ſhould ſinne / To thinke but Noblie of my Grand-mother, / Good wombes haue borne bad ſonnes.”
    ““Can't you understand that love without confidence is a worthless thing—and that had you trusted me I would have borne any obloquy with you.[…]””

adj

  1. (not-comparable)carried, supported.
    “In the last rays of the setting sun, you could pick out far away down the reach his beard borne high up on the white structure, foaming up stream to anchor for the night.”
    “When, bright with purple and with gold, Come priest and holy Cardinal, And borne above the heads of all The gentle Shepherd of the Fold.”
    “Irving is further required, as a matter of practice, to spell out what he contends are the specific defamatory meanings borne by those passages.”

name

  1. A surname.

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Etymology

From Middle English boren, iborne, from Old English boren, ġeboren, past participle of Old English beran (“to carry, bear”).

Anagrams of borne

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