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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
/ ɜːθ /
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
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 Word Forms
- ܱt·ٳ 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
It follows a decision this week to close four primary schools in neighbouring borough Hackney amid a continuing fall in birth rates across London.
In their first trial, they were found guilty of concealing the birth of a child and perverting the course of justice by not reporting the death of their baby.
Many of the women arrested on Monday were pregnant and others had recently given birth.
Meanwhile, falsely reporting a birth or death for official records can lead to three years of imprisonment.
Whether we're assigned male or female at birth, we all have kidney cells, and if all goes well we each have two kidneys.
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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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