What does birth mean?
Definitions for birth
bɜrθbirth
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word birth.
Princeton's WordNet
birthnoun
the time when something begins (especially life)
"they divorced after the birth of the child"; "his election signaled the birth of a new age"
birth, nativity, nascency, nascencenoun
the event of being born
"they celebrated the birth of their first child"
parturition, birth, giving birth, birthingnoun
the process of giving birth
parentage, birthnoun
the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents
birthverb
a baby born; an offspring
"the overall rate of incidence of Down's syndrome is one in every 800 births"
give birth, deliver, bear, birth, haveverb
cause to be born
"My wife had twins yesterday!"
Wiktionary
birthnoun
The process of childbearing.
birthnoun
An instance of childbirth.
birthnoun
A beginning or start; a point of origin.
birthnoun
The circumstances of one's background, ancestry, or upbringing.
He was of noble birth, but fortune had not favored him.
birthverb
To bear or give birth to (a child).
birthverb
To produce, give rise to.
birthadjective
A familial relationship established by childbirth.
Her birth father left when she was a baby; she was raised by her mother and stepfather.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
BIRTHnoun
Etymology: beorþ, Sax.
But thou art fair, and, at thy birth, dear boy,
Nature and fortune join’d to make thee great. William Shakespeare, K. J.In Spain, our springs like old mens children be,
Decay’d and wither’d from their infancy;
No kindly showers fall on our barren earth,
To hatch the seasons in a timely birth. Dryden.Most virtuous virgin, born of heav’nly birth. Fairy Q.
All truth I shall relate: nor first can I
Myself to be of Grecian birth deny. John Denham.He doth object, I am too great of birth. William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor.
Be just in all you say, and all you do;
Whatever be your birth, you’re sure to be
A peer of the first magnitude to me. John Dryden, Juvenal.High in his chariot then Halesus came,
A foe by birth to Troy’s unhappy name. John Dryden, Virgil.The people fear me; for they do observe
Unfather’d heirs and loathly births of nature. William Shakespeare, H. IV.That poets are far rarer births than kings,
Your noblest father prov’d. Ben Jonson, Epigrams.Who of themselves
Abhor to join: and, by imprudence mix’d,
Produce prodigious births, of body, or mind. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. xi. l. 687.She, for this many thousand years,
Seems to have practis’d with much care,
To frame the race of woman fair;
Yet never could a perfect birth
Produce before, to grace the earth. Edmund Waller.His eldest birth
Flies, mark’d by heav’n, a fugitive o’er earth. Matthew Prior.The vallies smile, and, with their flow’ry face,
And wealthy births, confess the flood’s embrace. Richard Blackmore.Others hatch their eggs, and tend the birth, till it is able to shift for itself. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 120.
That fair Syrian shepherdess,
Who after years of barrenness,
The highly favour’d Joseph bore
To him that serv’d for her before;
And at her next birth, much like thee,
Through pangs fled to felicity. John Milton.
Wikipedia
Birth
Birth is the act or process of bearing or bringing forth offspring, also referred to in technical contexts as parturition. In mammals, the process is initiated by hormones which cause the muscular walls of the uterus to contract, expelling the fetus at a developmental stage when it is ready to feed and breathe. In some species the offspring is precocial and can move around almost immediately after birth but in others it is altricial and completely dependent on parenting. In marsupials, the fetus is born at a very immature stage after a short gestation and develops further in its mother's womb pouch. It is not only mammals that give birth. Some reptiles, amphibians, fish and invertebrates carry their developing young inside them. Some of these are ovoviviparous, with the eggs being hatched inside the mother's body, and others are viviparous, with the embryo developing inside her body, as in the case of mammals.
ChatGPT
birth
Birth refers to the natural process or act of giving life to a child or offspring, typically from a female parent or organism. It marks the start of an individual's life in the external world, separate from their mother's womb, and is a significant biological and social event in most cultures. Birth can also pertain to the beginning or emergence of something, such as an idea, movement, or epoch.
Webster Dictionary
Birthnoun
the act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son
Birthnoun
lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction
Birthnoun
the condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency
Birthnoun
the act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth
Birthnoun
that which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable
Birthnoun
origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire
Birthnoun
see Berth
Wikidata
Birth
Birth is the act or process of bearing or bringing forth offspring from the uterus. The offspring is brought forth from the mother. The time of human birth is defined as the time at which the fetus comes out of the mother's womb into the world. Different forms of birth are oviparity, vivipary and ovovivipary.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Birth
bėrth, n. a ship's station at anchor. [Same as Berth.]
Birth
bėrth, n. the act of bearing or bringing forth: the offspring born: dignity of family: origin.—n. Birth′day, the day on which one is born, or the anniversary of that day.—adj. relating to the day of one's birth.—ns. Birth′day-book, a book in diary form, in which the birthdays of one's friends are entered in their autographs; Birth′dom (Shak.), birthright; Birth′-mark, a peculiar mark on one's body at birth; Birth′night, the night on which one is born, or the anniversary of that night; Birth′place, the place of one's birth; Birth′right, the right or privilege to which one is entitled by birth: native rights.—adj. Birth′-strang′led (Shak.), strangled in birth.—n. Birth′-wort, a genus of perennial plants, formerly used medicinally in cases of difficult parturition. [M. E. birÞe, prob. Scand.; cf. Goth, ga-baurÞs, Ger. ge-burt.]
Editors Contribution
birthverb
Having two occurring in every one, occurring once in every two; right in radiotelegraphy recording an action or process. 1.) the emergence of a baby or other from the body of its mother; the start of life as a physical separate being. 2.) the beginning of coming into existence of something.
The birth of my divine name was born after death.
Etymology: Becoming
Submitted by Tehorah_Elyon on April 27, 2024
birth
The act of being born.
The cow gave birth to her calf and it was such a joyous sight.
Submitted by MaryC on February 3, 2020
birth
The natural movement of a baby through the birth canal, cervix and then out of the vagina of their mother.
The birth of the baby is a miracle they both agree.
Submitted by MaryC on January 25, 2020
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
BIRTH
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Birth is ranked #48628 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Birth surname appeared 434 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Birth.
69.5% or 302 total occurrences were White.
25.1% or 109 total occurrences were Black.
3.2% or 14 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'birth' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1982
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'birth' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3005
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'birth' in Nouns Frequency: #780
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Anagrams for birth »
brith
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of birth in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of birth in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of birth in a Sentence
As a segment of the population tries to avoid the new measures, the dark net reacts to the real market and thus demand gives birth to offers.
We are not safe anymore, our rights as women, as individuals are under direct attack. This is not the last piece of radical legislation that will be addressed by the courts and we need to be prepared for the next thing that'll be struck down, whether it's LGBTQ marriage, interracial marriage, birth control, anything... because at this point they couldn't be making it more obvious for us that that's what's next.
Normal parents ask the hospital to provide a birth certificate and arrange for medical insurance, but this family didn't want a birth certificate and left immediately after paying the bill, we do not know what exactly happened during the period of time when the baby was discharged from the hospital on April 24, and when he was admitted to the hospital again on May 4.
It's a birth control method, the equivalent of family planning for humans.
Alfred Korzybski, His book, Science And Sanity:
Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistical structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies.
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Translations for birth
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- ولادة, بداية, ولد, وضع, مولد, ميلادArabic
- потекло, раждане, произход, раждам, началоBulgarian
- -ioù, ganedigezhBreton
- naixença, partCatalan, Valencian
- narození, porod, zrod, původ, poroditCzech
- genedigaethWelsh
- fødselDanish
- GeburtGerman
- καταγωγή, τοκετός, γέννα, γέννηση, γεννώGreek
- naskiĝoEsperanto
- nacimientoSpanish
- تولدPersian
- suku, sukujuuri, alku, synnyttää, syntymä, syntyperä, synnyttäminen, lisääntyminenFinnish
- eigaFaroese
- accoucher, naissanceFrench
- berteWestern Frisian
- breithIrish
- הוֹלִיד, לידהHebrew
- जन्मHindi
- szülés, származásHungarian
- ծնունդ, սկիզբArmenian
- nascentiaInterlingua
- kelahiranIndonesian
- akusharIdo
- fæðing, hingaðburðurIcelandic
- nascita, partoItalian
- הוּלHebrew
- 誕生, 成立, 出生, 勃興Japanese
- დაბადებაGeorgian
- ಜನನKannada
- 출생, 出生Korean
- مناڵبوونKurdish
- төрөлүш, туулуш, булак, тууш, ата тек, төрөт, тек, келип чыгышы, төрөлүү, туулуу, пайда болууKyrgyz
- nascentia, nativitas, pario, orīgoLatin
- gimimas, gimdymasLithuanian
- dzemdības, dzemdēšanaLatvian
- whānautanga, tīmatangaMāori
- раѓање, породување, зародиш, раѓа, потекло, родMacedonian
- ജനനംMalayalam
- geboorte, afkomst, baren, bevallingDutch
- fødselNorwegian
- narodzinyPolish
- parto, origem, nascimento, parir, dar à luzPortuguese
- unquyQuechua
- naștere, început, origineRomanian
- рождение, родыRussian
- rožastvo, rođenjeSerbo-Croatian
- porodiťSlovak
- rojstvo, roditi, porodSlovene
- födelse, början, födaSwedish
- zaa, zaliwa, kuzaa, zaliwSwahili
- பிறப்புTamil
- గర్భిణి, వంశము, కను, జన్మించుట, ప్రసవించు, పుట్టినTelugu
- กำเนิดThai
- doğumTurkish
- تولدUrdu
- sinh đẻ, đầu, gốc, [[sự]] [[ra đời]], dòng dõiVietnamese
- skepiaedje, vinowe å mondeWalloon
- געבורטYiddish
- 出生Chinese
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