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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.
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.
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. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of bairn in a Sentence.
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. a human offspring; son or daughter. Related adjective: filial.
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:
Aug 1, 2024 · bairn (plural bairns) (Scotland, and parts of Northern England) A child or baby. She moved about the country like a ghost, gathering herbs in dark loanings, lingering in kirkyairds, and casting a blight on innocent. They say that a shag is good for an unborn child, they get the circulation of blood, or some shite.
Definition of bairn noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Bairn is a Northern England English, Scottish English and Scots term for a child. [1] It originated in Old English as "bearn", becoming restricted to Scotland and the North of England c. 1700. [2] In Hull the r is dropped and the word Bain is used. [3]
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”).
