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say it: NOO-bawrn
newborn is an adjective and noun meaning "recently born". It carries 3 recorded senses.
having just or recently arisen or come into existence
“new nations”
“with newborn fears”
a baby from birth to four weeks
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for newborn come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.