Usually means: Young child, especially in Scotland.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word bairn:

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  1. bairn: Merriam-Webster
  2. bairn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bairn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bairn: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bairn: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bairn, bairn: Wordnik
  7. bairn: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bairn: Wiktionary
  9. bairn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bairn: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Bairn, bairn: Dictionary.com
  12. bairn: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Bairn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Bairn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. bairn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. bairn: Rhymezone
  17. Bairn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. bairn: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. bairn: FreeDictionary.org
  20. bairn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. bairn: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. bairn: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  23. bairn: Merriam-Webster

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bairn: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See bairns as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (Scotland, and parts of Northern England) A child or baby.
verb:  (transitive, Scotland) To make pregnant.

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