What does nativity mean?

Definitions for nativity
nəˈtɪv ɪ ti, neɪ-na·tiv·i·ty

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. birth, nativity, nascency, nascencenoun

    the event of being born

    "they celebrated the birth of their first child"

  2. Virgin Birth, Nativitynoun

    the theological doctrine that Jesus Christ had no human father; Christians believe that Jesus's birth fulfilled Old Testament prophecies and was attended by miracles; the Nativity is celebrated at Christmas

Wiktionary

  1. nativitynoun

    Birth; the place, time and circumstances of a birth.

  2. nativitynoun

    The birth of Jesus Christ (the Nativity).

  3. nativitynoun

    A horoscope associated with a person's birth.

  4. Nativitynoun

    The birth of Jesus as described in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.

  5. Nativitynoun

    Christmas.

  6. Etymology: nativitas, birth

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Nativitynoun

    Etymology: nativité, French.

    Concluding ever with a thanksgiving for the nativity of our Saviour, in whose birth the births of all are only blessed. Francis Bacon.

    My husband, and my children both,
    And you the calenders of their nativity,
    Go to a gossip’s feast. William Shakespeare, Com. of Errors.

    They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. William Shakespeare, Merr. W. of Win.

    When I vow, I weep; and vows so born,
    In their nativity all truth appears. William Shakespeare, Mid. N. Dream.

    Thy birth and thy nativity is of Canaan. Ezek. xvi. 3.

    These, in their dark nativity, the deep
    Shall yield us, pregnant with infernal flame. John Milton.

ChatGPT

  1. nativity

    Nativity generally refers to the process, circumstances, or place of being born, often associated with one's birthplace or origin. It is also commonly used in a religious context to signify the birth of Jesus Christ in Christianity.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Nativitynoun

    the coming into life or into the world; birth; also, the circumstances attending birth, as time, place, manner, etc

  2. Nativitynoun

    a picture representing or symbolizing the early infancy of Christ. The simplest form is the babe in a rude cradle, and the heads of an ox and an ass to express the stable in which he was born

  3. Nativitynoun

    a representation of the positions of the heavenly bodies as the moment of one's birth, supposed to indicate his future destinies; a horoscope

  4. Etymology: [F. nativit, L. nativitas. See Native, and cf. Navet.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of nativity in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of nativity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of nativity in a Sentence

  1. Christopher Marlowe:

    You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.

  2. Clive Staples Lewis:

    Just a hurried line...to tell a story which puts the contrast between *our* feast of the Nativity and all this ghastly Xmas racket at it's lowest. My brother heard a woman on a 'bus say, as the 'bus passed a church with a Crib outside it, Oh Lor' They bring religion into everything. Look- they're dragging it even into Christmas now

  3. Michael Nazir-Ali:

    The words the Lord Jesus occur three times in the carol and point to the central message of Christmas which is : God is with us in Jesus. Everything in the Church, where the Nativity play is being held, points to this central truth of the Christian Faith.

  4. Michael Mars:

    There's nothing wrong with (having a nativity scene on government property) ... if other religions can be accepted as well, there can't be one dominating voice to all the voices.

  5. Flower A. Newhouse:

    We are here in life for but one reason-to learn to climb through ascensions of consciousness into the true Selfhood which is within us-the Selfhood which belongs to the eternal, the Selfhood which is our real nativity, our home in God's spirit.

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