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Definition of 'Birth' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) birth
an act or instance of being born:
day of birth.

2.  birth
the act or process of bearing or bringing forth offspring; childbirth; parturition.

3.  birth
lineage; extraction; descent:
of Grecian birth.

4.  birth
high or noble lineage.

5.  birth
heritage:
a musician by birth.

6.  birth
any coming into existence:
the birth of an idea.

7.  birth
Archaic. something that is born.

8. (v.t.) birth
to give birth to.

9.  birth
give birth to,

10.  birth
to bear (a child).

11.  birth
to initiate; originate.

Etymology:  (1150–1200; ME byrthe < Scand)

Definition of 'Birth' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) birth
the time when something begins (especially life)
"they divorced after the birth of the child"; "his election signaled the birth of a new age"

2. (noun) birth, nativity, nascency, nascence
the event of being born
"they celebrated the birth of their first child"

3. (noun) parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
the process of giving birth

4. (noun) parentage, birth
the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents

5. (verb) birth
a baby born; an offspring
"the overall rate of incidence of Down's syndrome is one in every 800 births"

6. (verb) give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have
cause to be born
"My wife had twins yesterday!"


Definition of 'Birth' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) birth
the time when a baby is born
at the time of the birth; The infant weighed 8.5 pounds at birth.

2.  birth
the place or family that sb is born into
Canadian by birth

3.  birth
give birth to
to produce a baby
The cat gave birth to five kittens.


Definition of 'Birth' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Birth
the act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son

2. (noun) Birth
lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction

3. (noun) Birth
the condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency

4. (noun) Birth
the act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth

5. (noun) Birth
that which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable

6. (noun) Birth
origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire

7. (noun) Birth
see Berth


Translation of 'Birth' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: (an) act of coming into the world, being born
the birth of her son; deaf since birth.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: geboorte Arabic flag Arabic: وِلادَه، مَوْلِد Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: рождение
Brazilian flag Brazilian: nascimento Czech flag Czech: narození German flag German: die Geburt
Danish flag Danish: fødsel Greek flag Greek: γέννηση, γέννα Spanish flag Spanish: nacimiento
Estonian flag Estonian: sünd Farsi flag Farsi: تولد؛ زایش Finnish flag Finnish: syntymä
French flag French: naissance Hebrew flag Hebrew: לֵידָה Hindi flag Hindi: जन्म
Croatian flag Croatian: rođenje Hungarian flag Hungarian: születés Indonesian flag Indonesian: kelahiran
Icelandic flag Icelandic: fæðing Italian flag Italian: nascita Japanese flag Japanese: 誕生
Korean flag Korean: 탄생 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: gimimas Latvian flag Latvian: dzemdības; dzimšana
Malay flag Malay: lahir Dutch flag Dutch: geboorte Norwegian flag Norwegian: fødsel
Polish flag Polish: narodziny Persian flag Persian: تولد؛ زایش Portuguese flag Portuguese: nascimento
Romanian flag Romanian: naştere Russian flag Russian: рождение Slovak flag Slovak: narodenie
Slovenian flag Slovenian: rojstvo Serbian flag Serbian: rođenje Swedish flag Swedish: födsel
Thai flag Thai: การเกิด Turkish flag Turkish: doğum, doğma, doğuş Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 誕生,出生
Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: народження Urdu flag Urdu: جنم ، ولادت ، پیدائش Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: sự ra đời
Chinese flag Chinese: 诞生,出生

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