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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.
Synonyms: , , , ,
- 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: , , , ,
- Archaic. something that is born.
verb (used with object)
- to give birth to.
- to assist in giving birth; act as midwife for.
birth
/ ²úÉœËθ /
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
/ ²úû°ù³Ù³ó /
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 ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of birth1
˜yÐÄvlog 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
Mr Belton's tattoo - a clock face with the date and time of his daughter's birth - was included in a set of nine images for "detecting and identifying" TdA members.
A woman in Australia has unknowingly given birth to a stranger's baby, after her fertility clinic accidentally implanted another woman's embryos into her.
Pat Cummins faced a similar dilemma when he became Australia captain before an Ashes, shortly after the birth of his first child.
But another incident after the birth of their second child in 2000, which involved a riding crop, left her with marks on her back, bottom and legs.
The first was strangled by a python, and others died shortly after birth, likely related to nutritional deficits.
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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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