单词 | birth time |
释义 | birth timen. The day or moment of a person's birth; (also) the time at which a mother gives birth or is due to give birth (now rare). Also in extended use: the time at which something was founded or established. Cf. birth-tide n. at birth n.1 Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > day or date on which one is born birth-tidea1250 birth timec1330 birthnight1583 birthdaya1594 c1330 (?c1280) Conception of Mary (Auch.) f. 67 Holi chirche vnderstode hir burþetime [a1350 Ashm. burtime, c1375 Egerton burþtime] first in þis maner. c1425 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Harl.) 9 From oure Lorde's burþe time to þe worlde's ende. a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 207 (MED) Þat was mydwyf to me yn my burthtyme. a1564 T. Becon Common-pl. Holy Script. in Wks. (1844) 302 If they did perceive in the birth-time that it was a boy. 1747 E. Teft Orinthia's Misc. 84 He..fulfill'd each Prophecy; Birth-time and Place, and Miracles so fam'd. 1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. xviii. 207 The birth-time of Christianity. 1913 Mid-Pacific Mag. July 72/2 You must reveal yourself and you must go back to that wife. Her birth time has come. 2018 Star (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 22 June. 12 Researchers found that seven out of ten babies are born outside of the weekday hours of 9am to 5pm—with the most common birth time around 4am. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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