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(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. From the. Hansard archive. Those are the most important years in a bairn's life.
noun. ˈbern. Synonyms of bairn. chiefly Scotland. : child. Synonyms. bambino. bud. chap [ Southern & Midland] chick. child. cub. juvenile. kiddie. kiddy. kiddo. moppet. sprat. sprout. squirt. whelp. youngling. youngster. youth.
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. 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.
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:
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.
Definition of bairn noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
From Middle English barn, bern, from Old English (Anglian dialect) bearn (“child, son, descendant, offspring, issue, prodigy”) and Old Norse barn (“child”), both from Proto-Germanic *barną (“child”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, bring forth”).
Jun 17, 2024 · noun. a child: son or daughter. see more. Cite this entry. Style: MLA. "Bairn." Vocabulary.com Dictionary, Vocabulary.com, https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/bairn. Accessed 17 Jun. 2024. Copy citation. Examples from books and articles. loading examples... Word Family. bairn bairns. the "bairn" family. a child: son or daughter.
