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Definition: Bairn |
BairnNoun1. (in Scotland) a child: son or daughter. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bairn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
Etymology: Bairn \Bairn\, noun. [Scottish bairn, Anglo-Saxon bearn, from beran to bear; akin to Icelandic, OS., &Goth. barn. See Bear to support.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Infant | Child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling, bratling; elf. youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master. scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow; codlin,codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb, lambkin; aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bairn |
| English words defined with "bairn": Bearn. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Bairn" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.28% of the time. "Bairn" is used about 58 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.28% | 57 | 44,859 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.72% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 58 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bairn": bairn-team. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bairn | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bairn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | kind (child, infant, offspring, young). (various references) | |
Albanian | fëmijë (child, chit, infant, kid, little one, moppet, progeny, tad, youngster). (various references) | |
Arabic | طفل (chick, child, chit, clay, infant, kid, lad, nipper, paederast, pederast, small boy, squirt, tad, tot, tyke, young), إبنة (child, daughter, girl, girondist), إبن (boy, child, son). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | деца (children, offspring), дете (chicken, child, kid, offspring, olive branch, seal of love). (various references) | |
Chinese | 小孩 (Kid, toddler). (various references) | |
Czech | dítì (baby, child, kid, kiddy, little one). (various references) | |
Danish | barn (adopted child, barn, child, dependent child, descendant, infant, legitimate child, offspring, son, successor node, young). (various references) | |
Dutch | kind (child, infant, offspring, young). (various references) | |
Faeroese | barn (child, infant). (various references) | |
Farsi | فرزند (Breed, Child, Fruit, Fry, Get, Offspring, Progeny, Scion), بچه (Baby, Chick, Chicken, Child, Chit, Infant, Kid, Peewee, Tiddledywinks). (various references) | |
Finnish | lapsi (baby, child, infant). (various references) | |
French | enfant (babe). (various references) | |
Frisian | bern (child, infant). (various references) | |
German | Kind (baby, bambino, child, infant, kid, kiddy, offspring, sprog, sproglet, youngster). (various references) | |
Greek | παιδίο (kid). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | fëmijë (child, infant). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gyermek (child, children, chip, infant, kid, quick child). (various references) | |
Icelandic | barn (child, infant). (various references) | |
Irish | pÚiste (child), leanbh (child), gasúr (boy, child, laddie). (various references) | |
Italian | bambino (babe, baby, child, infant, kid, kiddy, young child, youngling). (various references) | |
Korean | 아 (infant, infantile, toddler). (various references) | |
Lombard | bambin (child, infant), fiolett (child, infant). (various references) | |
Manx | paitchey (bantling, brat, child, chit, kid, page, varlet). (various references) | |
Norwegian | barn (child, infant), unge (child, infant, kid). (various references) | |
Papiamen | mucha (child, infant). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | airnbay.(various references) | |
Polish | dziecko (child, infant). (various references) | |
Portuguese | criança (brat, child, chit, fosterling, infant, kid, kiddy, mini-skirt, person, piccaninny, pickax, romp, wean, youngster). (various references) | |
Romanian | copil (babe, baby, bantling, boy, brat, child, chip, descendant, imp, infant, kid, offspring, papoose, peter pan, son, urchin). (various references) | |
Russian | ребенок (baby, brat, child, infant, kid, kiddy, moppet, papoose, tad, toddler, weanling). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | dete (baby, bantling, child, kid). (various references) | |
Spanish | niño (baby, boy, child, dear, infant, junior, kid, lad, laddie). (various references) | |
Sranan | pikin (child, infant, little, small). (various references) | |
Swahili | mtoto (child, infant). (various references) | |
Swedish | barn (baby, bantling, barn, child, children, descendant, infant, issue, kid, offspring, son, successor node). (various references) | |
Tagalog | bat (child, infant, young). (various references) | |
Thai | เ"็ก. (various references) | |
Turkish | çocuk (baby, brat, child, chit, infant, infantile, junior, juvenile, kid, mite, moppet, nipper, paed-, seed, son, youngster). (various references) | |
Ukranian | син (boy, child, son), дочка (child, daughter), дитина (babe, bambino, child, chit, infant, kiddy, papoose, youngling). (various references) | |
Welsh | plentyn (child, infant). (various references) | |
Yucatec | paal (boy, child, infant, lad, son). (various references) | |
Zulu | umntwana (child, infant), ingane (child, infant, offspring, young). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bairn": bairnish, bairnlier, bairnliest, bairnly, bairns. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "airn": Cairn, Tairn. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: brain. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: abri, airn, bani, barn, bran, brin, rain, rani. | |
-2 letters: ain, air, ani, arb, ban, bar, bin, bra, nab, nib, ran, ria, rib, rin. | |
-3 letters: ab, ai, an, ar, ba, bi, in, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: bairns, baring, binary, brains, brainy, rabbin, riband. | |
+2 letters: bairnly, barbing, barding, barfing, bargain, barging, barking, barnier, barring, bearing, birdman, blaring, bracing, brained, braking, braving, braying, brazing, brigand, brisant, carabin, carbine, corbina, garbing, inboard, minibar, rabbins, rabboni, rainbow, ribands, ribband, sabring, taborin, unbraid, vibrant. | |
+3 letters: abjuring, aborning, aborting, abortion, abrading, abrasion, airborne, airbound, amberina, bacterin, bairnish, banditry, banisher, banister, barbican, bargains, baritone, barniest, barnlike, baronial, baronies, bartisan, bartizan, baryonic, bearding, bearings, bearskin, beraking, berating, bewaring, bigaroon, bilander, bilinear, binaries, binaural, blearing, blinkard, boarding, borating, bracings, braconid, bradding, bragging, braiding, brailing, brainiac, brainier, brainily, braining, brainish, brainpan, braising, branchia, brandied, brandies, branding, brandish, brannier, branning, brantail, brasilin, brassing, braunite, bravoing, brawling, brawnier, brawnily, brazilin, breading, breaking, breaming, brigands, brisance, bronchia, carabine, carabins, carbines, carbinol, carbonic, cinnabar, corbinas, crabbing, debonair, drabbing, endbrain, fibranne, garbling, grabbing, hairband, hangbird, hibernal, inarable, inboards, inurbane, ironbark, laboring, manubria, marbling, midbrain, minibars, misbrand, ninebark, obtainer, panbroil, rabbinic, rabbling, rabbonis, rainband, rainbird, rainbows, rambling, rebating, reobtain, ribbands, ringbark, rinsable, ruinable, rumbaing, sabering, searobin, tabering, taborine, taboring, taborins, tribunal, turbinal, unbraids, urbanise, urbanism, urbanist, urbanite, urbanity, urbanize, vibrance, vibrancy, vibrants, warbling. | |
+4 letters: abhenries, abhorring, aborigine, abortions, abrasions, abridging, abruption, absorbing, abstainer, adsorbing, amberinas, anaerobic, antilabor, antiurban, arabinose, arabizing, ascribing, aubergine, bacterins, badgering, bairnlier, ballerina, bandolier, banishers, banisters, bannering, bannister, bantering, barbarian, barbering, barbicans, barbitone, bargained, bargainer, baritonal, baritones, barraging, barreling, bartering, bartisans, bartizans, baseliner, battering, beaneries, bearskins, beavering, bedraping, beggaring, bereaving, betraying, bewraying, bigaroons, bilanders, binocular, birdbrain, blinkards, boardings, brabbling, bracingly, braconids, braidings, brailling, braincase, brainiacs, brainiest, brainless, brainpans, brainsick, brainwash, brambling, branchiae, branchial, branchier, branching, brandying, branniest, brannigan, brantails, brasilins, brattling, braunites, brawniest, brazening, brazilins, breaching, breadline, breakings, breasting, breathing, brigading, brilliant, brisances, broaching, brocading, bromating, bromelain, brominate, bronchial, cabinetry, cambering, carabiner, carabines, carbamino, carbanion, carbinols, carbonize, cinnabars, debarking, debarring, drabbling, drinkable, embarking, embarring, embracing, endbrains, fabricant, fibrannes, firebrand, forebrain, frangible, gabardine, gaberdine, grabbling, hairbands, hangbirds, harbinger, harboring, hibernate, hindbrain, ignorable, imbarking, inbreathe, incubator, incurable, incurably, inebriant, inebriate, inferable, inhabiter, insurable, interbank, ironbarks, jabbering, jaborandi, karabiner, labouring, labyrinth, lamebrain, librarian, librating, libration, lubricant, manubrium, marblings, midbrains, misbrands, nailbrush, ninebarks, nonbinary, obtainers, panbroils, prebaking, printable, probating, probation, rabbeting, rabbinate, rabbinism, rabbiting, rabidness, rainbands, rainbirds, ramblings, rebaiting, rehabbing, reinhabit, reobtains, rhumbaing, ribavirin, ringbarks, riverbank, searobins, signboard, snakebird, submarine, taborines, tabouring, timberman, trainable, trainband, tribesman, tribunals, tribunate, turbinals, turbinate, unbarring, unbearing, unbracing, unbraided, unbraking, unridable, upbearing, urbanised, urbanises, urbanisms, urbanists, urbanites, urbanized, urbanizes, vibrances, vibrantly, vibrating, vibration, windbreak, wristband, yabbering. | |
+5 letters: aberration, abjuration, abominator, aboriginal, aborigines, abreacting, abreaction, abridgment, abrogating, abrogation, abruptions, absorption, abstainers, absterging, acerbating, antibaryon, antirabies, arabinoses, arborizing, aubergines, bacitracin, backfiring, bairnliest, balbriggan, ballerinas, banderilla, banditries, bandoliers, banistered, bannisters, barbarians, barbecuing, barbequing, barbitones, bargainers, bargaining, barhopping, barkentine, barracking, barramundi, barrelling, bartending, baseliners, batrachian, becharming, becrawling, bedwarfing, begroaning, belaboring, besmearing, beswarming, bewearying, bewrapping, binaurally, binoculars, biparental, bipartisan, birdbrains, blabbering, blandisher, blarneying, blathering, blattering, blazonries, bleariness, bombarding, boundaries, bracketing, bradykinin, braincases, brainchild, braininess, brainpower, brainstorm, branchiest, branchline, brandished, brandishes, brannigans, brassiness, bratticing, brattiness, brawniness, breadlines, breathings, brigandage, brigandine, brigantine, brilliance, brilliancy, brilliants, broadening, bromelains, brominated, brominates, buccinator, buckraming, bulwarking, carabineer, carabinero, carabiners, carabinier, carbanions, carbonized, carbonizes, carbonylic, chambering, chinaberry, clabbering, clambering, corybantic, crackbrain, cranesbill, debonairly, disbarment, disbarring, drinkables, embargoing, exorbitant, exurbanite, fabricants, firebrands, floribunda, forbearing, forebrains, freebasing, gabardines, gaberdines, harbingers, harbouring, hebraizing, hibernated, hibernates, hibernator, hindbrains, inarguable, inarguably, inbreathed, inbreathes, incubators, incubatory, incurables, inebriants, inebriated, inebriates, inexorable, inexorably, inhabiters, inoperable, integrable, interabang, interbasin, interurban, invariable, invariably, jaborandis, jubilarian, karabiners, kurbashing, labyrinths, lambrequin, lamebrains, liberating, liberation, librarians, librations, linebacker, linerboard, lubricants, mandibular, manubriums, misbranded, naboberies, neoliberal, nonbearing, nonlibrary, nudibranch, obturating, obturation, outbargain, outbarking, outbraving, overbaking, paintbrush, panbroiled, parboiling, prefabbing, probations, rabbinates, rabbinical, rabbinisms, ramblingly, reboarding, redbaiting, reinhabits, relabeling, reobtained, republican, ribavirins, riboflavin, ringbarked, riverbanks, scrabbling, scrambling, shrinkable, signboards, slabbering, snakebirds, submarined, submariner, submarines, tambourine, tambouring, terminable, terminably, timberland, trabeation, trainbands, transcribe, tribunates, turbinated, turbinates, unabridged, unbraiding, unreliable, upbraiding, urbanising, urbanistic, urbanities, urbanizing, vibrancies, vibraphone, vibrations, windbreaks, wristbands. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 69 72 6E |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- .. .-. -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01101001 01110010 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a i r n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0069 0072 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3667758480 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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