Definitions for breed
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Princeton's WordNet(4.20 / 5 votes)Rate this definition:

1. breed, strain, stocknoun

   a special variety of domesticated animals within a species

   "he experimented on a particular breed of white rats"; "he created a new strain of sheep"

2. breedverb

   a special type

   "Google represents a new breed of entrepreneurs"

3. engender, breed, spawnverb

   call forth

4. breed, coververb

   copulate with a female, used especially of horses

   "The horse covers the mare"

5. breedverb

   cause to procreate (animals)

   "She breeds dogs"

6. breed, multiplyverb

   have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)

   "pandas rarely breed in captivity"; "These bacteria reproduce"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. breednoun

   All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.

2. breednoun

   A race or lineage.

3. breednoun

   A group of people with shared characteristics.

   People who were taught classical Greek and Latin at school are a dying breed.

4. breedverb

   To sexually produce offspring.

5. breedverb

   Of animals, to mate.

6. breedverb

   To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation's qualities.

7. breedverb

   To arrange the mating of specific animals.

   She wanted to breed her cow to the neighbor's registered bull.

8. breedverb

   To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.

   He tries to breed blue roses.

9. breedverb

   To make sure that one's young grow up to adulthood.

10. breedverb

    To yield or result in.

11. breedverb

    To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.

Webster Dictionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Breedverb

   to produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch

2. Breedverb

   to take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster

3. Breedverb

   to educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up

4. Breedverb

   to engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease

5. Breedverb

   to give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men

6. Breedverb

   to raise, as any kind of stock

7. Breedverb

   to produce or obtain by any natural process

8. Breedverb

   to bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant

9. Breedverb

   to be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth

10. Breedverb

    to have birth; to be produced or multiplied

11. Breedverb

    to raise a breed; to get progeny

12. Breednoun

    a race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance

13. Breednoun

    class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities

14. Breednoun

    a number produced at once; a brood

Freebase(5.00 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Breed

   A breed is a specific group of domestic animals or plants having homogeneous appearance, homogeneous behavior, and other characteristics that distinguish it from other animals or plants of the same species and that were arrived at through selective breeding. Despite the centrality of the idea of "breeds" to animal husbandry, no scientifically accepted definition of the term exists. A breed is therefore not an objective or biologically verifiable classification but is instead a term of art amongst groups of breeders who share a consensus around what qualities make some members of a given species members of a nameable subset. The term is distinguished from landrace, which refers to a naturally occurring regional variety of domestic animal through uncontrolled breeding. When bred together, animals of the same breed pass on these predictable traits to their offspring, and this ability—known as "breeding true"—is a requirement for a breed. Plant breeds are more commonly known as cultivars. The offspring produced as a result of breeding animals of one breed with other animals of another breed are known as crossbreeds or mixed breeds. Crosses between animal or plant variants above the level of breed/cultivar are referred to as hybrids.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Breed

   brēd, v.t. to generate or bring forth: to train or bring up: to cause or occasion.—v.i. to be with young: to produce offspring: to be produced or brought forth:—pa.t. and pa.p. bred.—n. that which is bred, progeny or offspring: kind or race.—ns. Breed′-bate (Shak.), one who is constantly breeding or producing debate or strife; Breed′er, one who breeds or brings up; Breed′ing, act of producing: education or manners.—Breeding in-and-in, pairing of similar forms: marrying always among near relations. [A.S. brédan, to cherish, keep warm; Ger. brüten, to hatch.]

Matched Categories

1. • Animal Husbandry
   • Cause
   • Copulate
   • Produce

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'breed' in Nouns Frequency: #1971

2. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'breed' in Verbs Frequency: #802

Anagrams for breed »

1. brede

How to pronounce breed?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of breed in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of breed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of breed in a Sentence

1. William Shakespeare:

   How use doth breed a habit in a man.

2. Steve Galster:

   We know that some zoos and a lot of wildlife operators supply animals into the black market, they breed the animals, have some there to make money from tourists, and sell the extra ones.

3. Piero Ignazi:

   A new breed of 5-Star leaders has popped up from nowhere, and for now, Renzi doesn't seem to have an answer to them.

4. Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia:

   Dear loved papa, I so much want to see you. I have just ended my lesson of arithmetic, I think that I succeeded well. We go to school of nurses, I am very happy there. Today it is raining and it is very humid. I am in Tatiana’s room with Olga and Tatiana. When you will see Boba, say to him that my hands itch me. I try to breed my own livestock of poetry of earth. Olga says that I smell poor, but it is not true. When you will come back, I shall wash myself in your tub. I hope that you did not forget the history which I told you during our promenade. I am sitting down and scratch my nose with the left hand. Olga wanted to slap me for it, but I avoided the hand. Be happy and in good health. I think extremely of you and embrace you tenderly.

5. Bill Gates:

   There's no investment that has a return percentage anything like being able to breed chickens.

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