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单词 births
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birth

1 of 3

noun

ˈbərth How to pronounce birth (audio)
often attributive
1
a
: the emergence of a new individual from the body of its parent
b
: the act or process of bringing forth young from the womb
2
: a state resulting from being born especially at a particular time or place
a Southerner by birth
3
a
: lineage, extraction
b
: high or noble birth
4
a
archaic : one that is born
b
: beginning, start

birth

2 of 3

verb

birthed; birthing; births

transitive verb

1
chiefly dialectal : to bring forth
2
a
: to give rise to : originate
b
: to give birth to

intransitive verb

: to bring forth or be brought forth as a child or young

birth

3 of 3

adjective

: biological sense 3
his birth mother

Synonyms

Noun

  • geniture
  • nativity

Verb

  • bear
  • deliver
  • drop
  • have
  • mother
  • produce

Adjective

  • biological
  • biologic
  • consanguineous
  • natural
See all Synonyms & Antonyms

Example Sentences

Noun He was present at the birth of his daughter. The hospital reported an increase in premature births. Please indicate your date of birth. the period from birth to adolescence a disease that is present at birth the birth of the solar system the birth of the blues We are witnessing the birth of a new era. Verb back in those days a woman her age would have birthed several children Adjective argued that the birth mother had not been informed of all of her options at the time of the adoption See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
The exec, to confirm the bank’s thesis that Frank had developed meaningful relationships with millions of students, wanted the names, dates of birth, emails, and addresses of Frank’s customers. Anne Sraders, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2023 Teigen announced the birth of their first child, daughter Luna Simone, on Instagram on April 17, 2016. Emily Tannenbaum, Peoplemag, 9 Feb. 2023 In a rare move, officials have sanctioned seven alleged members of notorious ransomware gangs and published their real-world names, dates of birth, email addresses, and photos. WIRED, 9 Feb. 2023 In reality, the Ohio kindergartner had experienced lifelong health problems since her premature birth, including epilepsy, asthma and frequent hospitalizations with respiratory viruses. Ali Swenson And Angelo Fichera, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2023 In reality, the Ohio kindergartner had experienced lifelong health problems since her premature birth, including epilepsy, asthma and frequent hospitalizations with respiratory viruses. Angelo Fichera, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2023 In reality, the Ohio kindergartner had experienced lifelong health problems since her premature birth, including epilepsy, asthma and frequent hospitalizations with respiratory viruses. Ali Swenson And Angelo Fichera, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Feb. 2023 Upon his February 2022 birth, Jenner and Travis Scott originally announced their son would be named Wolf but retracted the decision weeks later after thinking it over. Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 2 Feb. 2023 His father, the late Stuart Wintner, opened the park on the day of Russell’s birth, May 28, 1952. Carol Kovach, cleveland, 31 Jan. 2023
Verb
The animal this procedure would birth (from a surrogate African elephant’s uterus) would be similar to a woolly mammoth, though not exactly the same in looks or behavior. Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2023 Despite the moniker, Labrador retrievers are actually from neighboring Newfoundland, where small water dogs were bred with the giant, hardy Newfies to birth a medium-size retriever with fine legs and a short, water-shedding coat. Kyle Wintersteen, Field & Stream, 30 Jan. 2023 Part of the rationale for large families in the South during the era of crop labor was to birth their labor force. Marc Myers, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2022 Other regions grow rich in gas and dust and begin, in their newfound opulence, to birth new stars. Nola Taylor Tillman, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2022 Women have been expected to birth and raise children for centuries. Morgan Sung, NBC News, 25 Jan. 2023 The right’s successes, however, could produce a backlash from the left similar to the post–Warren court one that helped birth the conservative legal movement a half-century ago. Matt Ford, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2022 Experts are currently hashing out these issues in real time, even as researchers forge ahead with plans to birth and raise new northern white rhinos. Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2021 The English musician and ideas man helped birth glam and art rock as a member of Roxy Music. David Marchese David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2022
Adjective
When the twins — son Eames and daughter Ellison — arrived eight weeks early on Jan. 11, 2021, a judge had not yet considered the pre-birth order, which later was denied. Rachel Burchfield, Peoplemag, 20 Jan. 2023 The three months now offered to non-birth parents is a departure from the scant three weeks given under the previous policy. Arkansas Online, 17 Jan. 2023 Non-birth parents, adoptive parents and long-term foster parents were included before. Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2023 This was certainly a fear of mine, and post-birth, gravity has done its thing. Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 31 Aug. 2022 The post-birth appearance outside the Lindo Wing of St. Mary's Hospital has become something of a royal tradition — started by Diana. Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2022 For a friend who loves wine, gift them this wine glass for their first post-birth drink. Jamie Kravitz, Woman's Day, 4 Aug. 2022 Luckily, Martine was coming the next morning for the final pre-birth checkup. Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022 The babies' early arrival meant the Myers did not complete Michigan's requisite pre-birth order process in time, forcing them, because of the state's restrictive laws around surrogacy, to fight in court to legally be the twins' parents. Rachel Burchfield, PEOPLE.com, 22 Dec. 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Middle English, from Old Norse byrth; akin to Old English beran

First Known Use

Noun

12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Verb

1831, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

Adjective

1958, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

birth

noun
ˈbərth
1
a
: the coming out of a new individual from the body of its parent
b
: the act or process of bringing forth young from the uterus
2
: descent sense 1, lineage
noble birth
3
: beginning sense 1, origin

Medical Definition

birth

1 of 3 noun
ˈbərth How to pronounce birth (audio)
1
: the emergence of a new individual from the body of its parent
2
: the act or process of bringing forth young from the womb

birth

2 of 3 transitive verb
: to give birth to
allowed to birth her child in her own wayNancy Robinson

intransitive verb

: to bring forth or be brought forth as a child or young
contend that birthing is a natural process, rather than a medical procedureKit Miniclier
the baby birthed breechJayne Anne Phillips

birth

3 of 3 adjective
: biological sense 3
spent years searching for his birth parents

births 1 of 2

noun

plural of birth
1
as in nativities
the act or instance of being born almost from birth, he showed all the marks of future greatness

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance
  • nativities
  • maternities
  • geneses
  • generations
  • genitures
  • originations
  • parentings
  • paternities
  • breedings
  • reproductions
  • bearings
  • creations
  • childbearings
  • labors
  • nascencies
  • parturitions
  • parenthoods
  • accouchements
  • fatherhoods
  • motherhoods
  • rises

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • abortions
  • miscarriages
  • stillbirths
2
as in ancestries
the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended a man of noble birth

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • ancestries
  • lineages
  • genealogies
  • pedigrees
  • families
  • breedings
  • origins
  • extractions
  • descents
  • bloodlines
  • blood
  • strains
  • stocks
  • family trees
  • parentages
  • successions
  • relatives
  • races
  • relations
  • lines
  • houses
  • heredities
  • kins
  • kindreds

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • seeds
  • offspring
  • issues
  • seed
  • children
  • progenies
  • offsprings
  • sons
  • posterities
  • successors
  • heirs
  • inheritors
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3
as in beginnings
the point at which something begins that 12-second flight by Orville Wright marked the birth of aviation

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • beginnings
  • commencements
  • inceptions
  • onsets
  • starts
  • alphas
  • launches
  • geneses
  • infancies
  • inaugurations
  • thresholds
  • baselines
  • dawns
  • kickoffs
  • originations
  • initiations
  • outsets
  • incipiencies
  • nascencies
  • arrivals
  • incipiences
  • origins
  • mornings
  • nascences
  • day ones
  • childhoods
  • git-goes
  • first bases
  • drawing boards
  • institutions
  • emergences
  • ground zeros
  • cradles
  • wells
  • openings
  • germs
  • creations
  • fountains
  • sources
  • advents
  • get-goes
  • springs
  • appearances
  • square ones
  • youths
  • debuts
  • fountainheads
  • wellsprings
  • seedbeds
  • roots
  • débuts

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • endings
  • conclusions
  • periods
  • ends
  • terminations
  • closings
  • closes
  • completions
  • closures
  • stops
  • cessations
  • finishes
  • finales
  • omegas
  • windups
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births

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of birth, chiefly dialect
as in mothers
to bring forth from the womb back in those days a woman her age would have birthed several children

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • mothers
  • produces
  • has
  • delivers
  • labors
  • fathers
  • breeds
  • bears
  • spawns
  • drops
  • calves
  • litters
  • gives birth to
  • sires
  • pups
  • kids
  • reproduces
  • kittens
  • generates
  • propagates
  • begets
  • gets
  • multiplies
  • whelps
  • kindles

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • aborts
  • loses
  • miscarries
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