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birth
[ burth ]
noun
- an act or instance of being born:
the day of his birth.
- the act or process of bearing or bringing forth offspring; childbirth; parturition:
a difficult birth.
- lineage; extraction; descent:
of Grecian birth.
- high or noble lineage:
to be foolishly vain about one's birth.
- natural heritage:
a musician by birth.
- any coming into existence; origin; beginning:
the birth of Protestantism; the birth of an idea.
Synonyms: inauguration, genesis, inception, commencement, start
- Archaic. something that is born.
verb (used with object)
- to give birth to.
- to assist in giving birth; act as midwife for.
birth
/ bɜːθ /
noun
- the process of bearing young; parturition; childbirth natal
- the act or fact of being born; nativity
- the coming into existence of something; origin
- ancestry; lineage
of high birth
- noble ancestry
a man of birth
- natural or inherited talent
an artist by birth
- archaic.the offspring or young born at a particular time or of a particular mother
- give birth
- to bear (offspring)
- to produce, originate, or create (an idea, plan, etc)
verb
- to bear or bring forth (a child)
birth
/ bûrth /
Noun
- The emergence and separation of offspring from the body of its mother, seen in all mammals except monotremes.
Adjective
- Present at birth, as a defect in a bodily structure.
Other Words From
- multi·birth noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of birth1
Word History and Origins
Origin of birth1
Idioms and Phrases
- give birth to,
- to bear (a child).
- to initiate; originate:
Her hobby gave birth to a successful business.
More idioms and phrases containing birth
see give birth to .Example Sentences
To be safe, I always parked at the other end of the valley and entered the wetland from there, giving the cabin a wide birth.
We went through birth pain through Civil Rights in the 60s, and we’re going through it again now.
Though she was “assigned the male sex at birth,” Carlos knew early in her life that she was a girl, and was baffled that others couldn’t see that.
All you need is identification showing your date of birth and that you live in the state.
Perhaps our potential to think, learn and reason was not set from birth, he proposed.
Indeed, every teacher is expected to be a Muslim by birth or conversion.
Women are more likely to recover sooner from birth and less likely to experience post-partum depression.
Advanced maternal age dramatically increases the risk of maternal mortality as well as birth defects like Down Syndrome.
Her focus would be on the three months, January through March 1965, that gave birth to the Voting Rights Act.
Nothing much to use in cleaning up the baby and his mother after the birth, no place to dispose of the placenta.
A native of Haarlem on Zandam, the date of her birth being unknown.
Though by birth duke of St. Cloud, he preferred the ecclesiastical state to political distinction.
Two or three more infant deaths intervened before the birth of Marcella.
But that is past; and I feel, that could birth give dignity, my ancestors of Nassau reigned in this very palace!
This is an instance of Inclusion as to the men, of Exclusion and Concurrence as to date of birth and death.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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