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Birth Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Birth? [n] the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their first child" [n] the process of giving birth [n] the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents [n] the time when something begins (especially life); "they divorced after the birth of the child" or"his election signaled the birth of a new age" [v] give birth (to a newborn); "My wife had twins yesterday!" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Birth: bear \| birthing \| deliver \| give birth \| giving birth \| have \| nascence \| nascency \| nativity \| parentage \| parturition Related Terms \| Find terms related to Birth: abiogenesis \| abortion \| accouchement \| affiliation \| allele \| allelomorph \| Altmann theory \| ancestry \| animal spirits \| animate existence \| animation \| apparentation \| archigenesis \| aristocracy \| aristocraticalness \| babyhood \| bear \| bearing \| beget \| beginning \| beginnings \| being alive \| biogenesis \| birth throes \| birthing \| blastogenesis \| blessed event \| blood \| bloodline \| blue blood \| branch \| breed \| bring to birth \| character \| childbearing \| childbed \| childbirth \| childhood \| chromatid \| chromatin \| chromosome \| commencement \| common ancestry \| confinement \| consanguinity \| cradle \| creation \| dawn \| dawning \| De Vries theory \| delivery \| derivation \| descent \| determinant \| determiner \| development \| diathesis \| digenesis \| direct line \| distaff side \| distinction \| DNA \| emergence \| endowment \| engender \| epigenesis \| eugenics \| eumerogenesis \| existence \| extraction \| factor \| family \| father \| female line \| filiation \| freshman year \| Galtonian theory \| gene \| generation \| genesiology \| genesis \| genetic code \| genetics \| genteelness \| gentility \| give birth to \| giving birth \| hatching \| having a baby \| having life \| hereditability \| heredity \| heritability \| heritage \| heterogenesis \| histogenesis \| homogenesis \| honorable descent \| house \| immortality \| inborn capacity \| inception \| inchoation \| incipience \| incipiency \| incunabula \| infancy \| inheritability \| inheritance \| isogenesis \| labor \| life \| lifetime \| line \| line of descent \| lineage \| liveliness \| living \| long life \| longevity \| male line \| matrocliny \| Mendelianism \| Mendelism \| merogenesis \| metagenesis \| miscarriage \| monogenesis \| mother \| multiparity \| nascence \| nascency \| nativity \| nobility \| noble birth \| nobleness \| onset \| opening \| origin \| origination \| orthogenesis \| outset \| outstart \| pangenesis \| parentage \| parthenogenesis \| parturition \| patrocliny \| pharmacogenetics \| phylum \| pregnancy \| procreate \| procreation \| quality \| race \| rank \| recessive character \| replication \| RNA \| royalty \| seed \| sept \| side \| sire \| slip \| spear side \| spindle side \| spontaneous generation \| spriteliness \| start \| stem \| stirps \| stock \| strain \| succession \| sword side \| the Nativity \| the stork \| travail \| Verworn theory \| viability \| vitality \| vivacity \| Weismann theory \| Weismannism \| Wiesner theory \| youth See Also \| accouchement \| alteration \| beginning \| biological process \| bring forth \| brooding \| calving \| change \| childbearing \| childbed \| childbirth \| commencement \| conceive \| confinement \| cradle \| delivery \| drop \| egg laying \| family relationship \| farrow \| farrowing \| first \| foal \| hatch \| hatching \| incubation \| kickoff \| kinship \| kitten \| labor \| labour \| lamb \| laying \| life \| lifespan \| lifetime \| litter \| live birth \| lying-in \| modification \| offset \| organic process \| outset \| parturiency \| posthumous birth \| produce \| rebirth \| reincarnation \| relationship \| reproduction \| start \| starting time \| travail \| twin \| vaginal birth Birth In Webster's Dictionary \Birth\ (b[~e]rth), n. [OE. burth, birth, AS. beor[edt], gebyrd, fr. beran to bear, bring forth; akin to D. geboorte, OHG. burt, giburt, G. geburt, Icel. bur[eth]r, Skr. bhrti bearing, supporting; cf. Ir. & Gael. beirthe born, brought forth. [root]92. See 1st {Bear}, and cf. {Berth}.] 1. The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son. 2. Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction. Elected without reference to birth, but solely for qualifications. --Prescott. 3. The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency. A foe by birth to Troy's unhappy name. --Dryden. 4. The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth. ``At her next birth.'' --Milton. 5. That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable. Poets are far rarer births than kings. --B. Jonson. Others hatch their eggs and tend the birth till it is able to shift for itself. --Addison. 6. Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire. {New birth} (Theol.), regeneration, or the commencement of a religious life. Syn: Parentage; extraction; lineage; race; family. \Birth\, n. See {Berth}. [Obs.] --De Foe.

Birth Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Birth?

[n] the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their first child"
[n] the process of giving birth
[n] the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents
[n] the time when something begins (especially life); "they divorced after the birth of the child" or"his election signaled the birth of a new age"
[v] give birth (to a newborn); "My wife had twins yesterday!"

Birth In Webster's Dictionary

\Birth\ (b[~e]rth), n. [OE. burth, birth, AS. beor[edt],
gebyrd, fr. beran to bear, bring forth; akin to D. geboorte,
OHG. burt, giburt, G. geburt, Icel. bur[eth]r, Skr. bhrti
bearing, supporting; cf. Ir. & Gael. beirthe born, brought
forth. [root]92. See 1st {Bear}, and cf. {Berth}.]
1. The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; --
   generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.

2. Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble
   extraction.

         Elected without reference to birth, but solely for
         qualifications.                       --Prescott.

3. The condition to which a person is born; natural state or
   position; inherited disposition or tendency.

         A foe by birth to Troy's unhappy name. --Dryden.

4. The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a
   birth. ``At her next birth.'' --Milton.

5. That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal
   or vegetable.

         Poets are far rarer births than kings. --B. Jonson.

         Others hatch their eggs and tend the birth till it
         is able to shift for itself.          --Addison.

6. Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.

{New birth} (Theol.), regeneration, or the commencement of a
   religious life.

Syn: Parentage; extraction; lineage; race; family.


\Birth\, n.
See {Berth}. [Obs.] --De Foe.

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