different between born vs birthplace

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b??n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n
• Homophones: borne, bourn, bourne, Bourne (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger), bawn (in non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1

From Middle English born, boren, borne, iborne, from Old English boren, ?eboren, from Proto-West Germanic *boran, *giboran, from Proto-Germanic *buranaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *beran? (“to bear, carry”), equivalent to bear +? -en. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gebooren (“born”), West Frisian berne (“born”), Dutch geboren (“born”), German geboren (“born”), Swedish boren (“born”).

Verb

born

1. past participle of bear; given birth to.

2. (obsolete) past participle of bear in other senses.
   • 1784, Thomas Sheridan, Life of Dr. Swift, Section I

     In some monasteries the severity of the clausure is hard to be born.

Translations

Adjective

born (not comparable)

1. Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• borne
• né, née

Etymology 2

Dialectal variant of burn.

Noun

born (plural borns)

1. (Tyneside) Alternative spelling of burn (a stream)

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN

Verb

born (third-person singular simple present borns, present participle bornin, simple past and past participle bornt)

1. (Tyneside) Alternative spelling of burn (with fire etc.)

References

• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]

Anagrams

• Brno, Norb

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

born f (plural bornen)

1. (dialectal) Obsolete form of bron.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• barn

Noun

born n

1. indefinite plural of barn

English

Alternative forms

• place of birth

Etymology

From birth +? place.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?b???ple?s/

Noun

birthplace (plural birthplaces)

1. The location where a person was born.

   Portsmouth was Charles Dickens’ birthplace.

2. (by extension) The location where something was created or devised.

   Coney Island was the birthplace of the hot dog.

Synonyms

• birthstead

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