I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a baby is born
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Let me know as soon as the baby is born.
a child is born
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Most children at born in hospital.
a natural leader/a born leader (= someone who naturally has all the qualities needed to be a leader )
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He has the confidence of a born leader.
be born deaf
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If the mother gets the disease, her baby may be born deaf.
be born equal
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It is a myth that all men are born equal.
be born outside marriage (= be born when your parents are not married )
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Four in ten children are born outside marriage.
born and raised
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Camus was born and raised in Algeria.
born blind
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Beverley was born blind .
born loser
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The guy’s a born loser .
born to lead
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a man who was born to lead
born/delivered etc by caesarean
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Both her children were born by caesarean section.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
again
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This is being born again to a new hope.
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You are born again , said the woman who had given me my wedding gown.
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Then when I die, I can not enter her body to be born again .
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Each day is new, and each day I am born again .
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The gift of becoming sons or daughters does not come through our being born , but through our being born again .
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The fundamentalists are saying, work hard, be born again , you can go to heaven.
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Repent, believe, be born again .
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The ability to disappear and reappear, to die and to be born again .
■ NOUN
baby
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Curled tight like an embryo that doesn't want to be born , like a baby who's had too much pain.
child
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To them was born another child , Malekith, who was to become the most hated of Elves.
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They prayed for a child , a son, and were so happy when he was born .
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S.-born children are i-se, or second generation.
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She knew that her daughter was completed by this child , that she felt she had been born to bear this child.
daughter
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On 26 November 1986 their only child was born , a daughter , T., the subject of these proceedings.
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He spoke about Hadassah's background as the Prague-born daughter of Holocaust survivors.
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It was into this lawless milieu that Devi was born , the second daughter of a low-caste illiterate farmer.
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Charles and Micki Browning, both hospital employees, stayed home with their prematurely born daughter .
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There two children were born , a daughter , Agnes, who soon died, and a son, Axel.
son
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Niklaus Andreas Lauda was born the son of a Viennese paper mill owner on 22 February 1949.
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Thebes was Dionysus' own city, where he was born , the son of Zeus and the Theban princess Semele.
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Charles's next child was born dead - a son .
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I was born the son of a woodman who chopped down trees in the forest and sold the wood for a living.
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An abortion is performed, or a son is born .
wedlock
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It's upsetting to find you were born out of wedlock .
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Long ago, an aunt told me that my grandmother wash born out of wedlock .
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Burns had fourteen known children, half of them born out of wedlock .
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Unlike the synonym, MAMzer, BENKert connotes love child, not one merely born out of wedlock .
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A baby born out of wedlock was a great sin, then, and a huge embarrassment to the family.
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A baby born out of wedlock was a horrible sin for which there was no forgiveness.
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I had to advise him that the father of a child born out of wedlock had few, if any, rights.
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Babies born out of wedlock are commonplace.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(as) to the manner born
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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
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A baby born out of wedlock was a horrible sin for which there was no forgiveness.
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Babies born out of wedlock are commonplace.
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Long ago, an aunt told me that my grandmother wash born out of wedlock .
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Unlike the synonym, MAMzer, BENKert connotes love child, not one merely born out of wedlock .
nobly born
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But Richard at first refused, arguing that he was as nobly born as his brother.
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For non-residents, other than the nobly born and well connected, it is less informative.
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She was rich and nobly born and powerful.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
newly
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A newly born child enjoys that status.
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If injury is negligently caused to a newly born babe, liability in negligence arises.
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The newly born goats were kept in a pen under her bed.
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When the cubs are very small they feed quite extensively on newly born rabbits.
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The newly born boy was wrapped in a ladies jump suit.
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All newly born tapirs are covered with stripes and spots as camouflage.
■ NOUN
baby
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Read in studio A nanny has been jailed after fracturing the skulls of two new born babies in her care.
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Useless information Perhaps the essential clue to dramatisation was given in the discovery that new born babies enjoy solving problems.
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In the 1950s and early 1960s infant mortality of the first born babies were higher than those of the second.
teacher
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Because Karajan was a born teacher , he was always interested in young musicians.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He seemed to be a born leader, someone who inspired confidence and loyalty.
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When I read his first essays I knew that he was a born writer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A newly born child enjoys that status.
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I judge you to be a born city person.
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Like rabbits, they are born blind but they do have some very fine body hair.
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Mr Waigel is a Bavarian born and bred who has little love for Bonn but none at all for the former Prussian capital.
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She left one dead, one born and two crippled for life, one way or the other.
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The newly born goats were kept in a pen under her bed.
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This meant Mr Packwood had to bottle feed him every three hours when he was first born .