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- DictionaryBairn/bern/
noun
- 1. a child. Scottish, Northern English
Middle English bern, barn, from Old English bearn & Old Norse barn; akin to Old High German barn child. First Known Use. before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above. Time Traveler. The first known use of bairn was before the 12th century. See more words from the same century.
The word bairn comes from the Old English word bearn, a “descendant,” and is related to the verb bear, as in bearing children. A bairn can be either a male or female child. It can also refer more generally to childhood.
(Definition of bairn from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) Examples of bairn. bairn. Thousands of old men and wives and bairns are starving and their breadwinners can get neither unemployment pay nor outdoor relief.
Bairn is a Northern England English, Scottish English and Scots term for a child. It originated in Old English as "bearn", becoming restricted to Scotland and the North of England c. 1700. In Hull the r is dropped and the word Bain is used.
(Definition of bairn from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) Examples of bairn. bairn. It was an excited breath of a word from the wide-eyed bairns. From Project Gutenberg. The sun, who never before had been allowed to touch his bairns, arose and approached their sleeping place.
Jun 4, 2024 · bairn (third-person singular simple present bairns, present participle bairnin, simple past bairnt, past participle bairnt) to make pregnant. Whaiver he wis, he'd bairned her. Whoever he was, he'd got her pregnant.
1. a. a boy or girl between birth and puberty. b. ( as modifier) child labour. 2. a baby or infant. 3. an unborn baby. Related prefix: paedo- 4. See with child. 5.
1. a person between birth and full growth; a young boy or girl. 2. a son or daughter. 3. a baby or infant. 4. a human fetus. 5. a person who behaves in a childish manner. 6. a descendant. 7. any person or thing regarded as the product of particular circumstances or influences: children of poverty. 8. Archaic. childe. Idioms:
bairn. Other forms: bairns. Definitions of bairn. noun. a child: son or daughter. see more.
Definition of bairn noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
