was born
Came into being
Was born describes the event of someone's birth, always in passive voice because we don't choose to be born—it happens to us.
It typically introduces when or where someone entered the world: She was born in 1987, He was born in a small town in Ohio.
The phrase extends to origins of things: A new era was born, The idea was born out of frustration.
- cryVocal expression of emotion
- birthComing into the world
- labor painsChildbirth's physical distress
- hospital bedClinical sleeping furniture
- bundle of joyAffectionate term for infant
native soil · ancestral land · naming ceremony · genealogy · conception · heritage · family name · mother · delivery · first breath · rites of passage · breath · family tree · emergence · neonatal · midwife · umbilical cord · swaddled