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語源

From 中期英語 unborn, from 古期英語 unboren, from Proto-Germanic *unburanaz. Equivalent to un- +‎ born.

発音

• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)n

形容詞

unborn (not comparable)

1. Not yet born; yet to come; future.
2. Not yet delivered; still existing in the mother's womb.
   • 2007 September 10, “Review: Jones, Coens, Penn highlight Toronto”, in CNN‎:

     Ellen Page gives a star-making performance as a 16-year-old live wire who decides to go through with her pregnancy and seeks acceptably well-adjusted, wealthy, punk-rock loving parents for the unborn baby.

3. Existing without birth or beginning.

同意語

• (not born): coming; see also Thesaurus:future

派生語

名詞

unborn (countable and uncountable, plural unborns)

1. (countable) A single unborn offspring at any stage of gestation.
   • 2009, Catherine Playoust, Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, “The Leaping Child: Imagining the Unborn in Early Christian Literature”, in Vanessa R. Sasson, Jane Marie Law, editors, Imagining the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 176:

     Whereas the lack of a child brings shame upon Anna and Joachim, the converse holds true for Mary: the existence of an unborn in the womb of a woman who is supposed to be a virgin causes great scandal.

2. (uncountable) Unborn offspring collectively.

   Inheritance law allows property to be left to the unborn.

引用

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:unborn.