BE BORN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does be born mean? 

• BE BORN (verb)
  The verb BE BORN has 1 sense:

1. come into existence through birth

  Familiarity information: BE BORN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BE BORN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come into existence through birth

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

She was born on a farm

Hypernyms (to "be born" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "be born"):

hatch (emerge from the eggs)

fall (be born, used chiefly of lambs)

come into being; come to life (be born or come into existence)

reincarnate; transmigrate (be born anew in another body after death)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Antonym:

die (pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life)

Derivation:

birth (the event of being born)

birth (the process of giving birth)

birth (the time when something begins (especially life))

 Context examples 

It is always good to be born.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

There is plenty more life demanding to be born.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The 'born together' hypothesis has been the favorite, and simulations developed in recent decades have shown almost all stars could be born as multiples that often spin away on their own.

(Our Sun Could Have Been Born With an Evil Twin Called "Nemesis", The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A low birth weight baby can be born too small, too early (premature), or both.

(Birth Weight, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

And when time shall have softened your despair, new and dear objects of care will be born to replace those of whom we have been so cruelly deprived.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

They may be born with heart disease.

(Down Syndrome, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

The child to be born at Randalls must be a tie there even dearer than herself; and Mrs. Weston's heart and time would be occupied by it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

You had no right to be born, for you make no use of life.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It would be much more easy to be born a Jackson, or something of that sort, one would think.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)