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ain

noundeterminertop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • //eːn//

Own; belonging to one.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of ayinAlternative form of ayin (“Semitic letter”).

determiner

  1. 1

    Own; belonging to one.

    Bobby Shaftoe's bright and fair, Combing down his yellow hair, He's my ain for evermair, Bonny Bobby Shaftoe.

Etymology

From (Scots) Middle English aȝen.

Forms

plural
ains
The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).