'Birth' definitions:
Definition of 'birth'
From: WordNet
noun
The time when something begins (especially life); "they divorced after the birth of the child"; "his election signaled the birth of a new age" [ant: death, demise, dying]
noun
The event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their first child" [syn: birth, nativity, nascency, nascence] [ant: death, decease, expiry]
noun
noun
The kinship relation of an offspring to the parents [syn: parentage, birth]
noun
A baby born; an offspring; "the overall rate of incidence of Down's syndrome is one in every 800 births"
verb
Definition of 'Birth'
From: GCIDE
- Birth \Birth\ (b[~e]rth), n. [OE. burth, birth, AS. beor[eth], gebyrd, fr. beran to bear, bring forth; akin to D. geboorte, OHG. burt, giburt, G. geburt, Icel. bur[eth]r, Skr. bhrti bearing, supporting; cf. Ir. & Gael. beirthe born, brought forth. [root]92. See 1st Bear, and cf. Berth.]
- 1. The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction. [1913 Webster]
- Elected without reference to birth, but solely for qualifications. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency. [1913 Webster]
- A foe by birth to Troy's unhappy name. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth. "At her next birth." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 5. That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable. [1913 Webster]
- Poets are far rarer births than kings. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- Others hatch their eggs and tend the birth till it is able to shift for itself. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire. [1913 Webster]
- New birth (Theol.), regeneration, or the commencement of a religious life. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Parentage; extraction; lineage; race; family. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'birth'
From: GCIDE
- Berth \Berth\ (b[~e]rth), n. [From the root of bear to produce, like birth nativity. See Birth.] [Also written birth.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. (Naut.) (a) Convenient sea room. (b) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside. (c) The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment. "He has a good berth." --Totten. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in. [1913 Webster]
- Berth deck, the deck next below the lower gun deck. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.
- To give (the land or any object) a wide berth, to keep at a distance from it. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Birth'
From: Easton
- Birth As soon as a child was born it was washed, and rubbed with salt (Ezek. 16:4), and then swathed with bandages (Job 38:9; Luke 2:7, 12). A Hebrew mother remained forty days in seclusion after the birth of a son, and after the birth of a daughter double that number of days. At the close of that period she entered into the tabernacle or temple and offered up a sacrifice of purification (Lev. 12:1-8; Luke 2:22). A son was circumcised on the eighth day after his birth, being thereby consecrated to God (Gen. 17:10-12; comp. Rom. 4:11). Seasons of misfortune are likened to the pains of a woman in travail, and seasons of prosperity to the joy that succeeds child-birth (Isa. 13:8; Jer. 4:31; John 16:21, 22). The natural birth is referred to as the emblem of the new birth (John 3:3-8; Gal. 6:15; Titus 3:5, etc.).
Synonyms of 'birth'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abiogenesis,
- abortion,
- accouchement,
- affiliation,
- allele,
- allelomorph,
- Altmann theory,
- ancestry,
- animal spirits,
- animate existence,
- animation,
- apparentation,
- archigenesis,
- aristocracy,
- aristocraticalness,
- babyhood,
- bear,
- bearing,
- beget,
- beginning,
- beginnings,
- being alive,
- biogenesis,
- birth throes,
- birthing,
- blastogenesis,
- blessed event,
- blood,
- bloodline,
- blue blood,
- branch,
- breed,
- bring to birth,
- character,
- childbearing,
- childbed,
- childbirth,
- childhood,
- chromatid,
- chromatin,
- chromosome,
- commencement,
- common ancestry,
- confinement,
- consanguinity,
- cradle,
- creation,
- dawn,
- dawning,
- De Vries theory,
- delivery,
- derivation,
- descent,
- determinant,
- determiner,
- development,
- diathesis,
- digenesis,
- direct line,
- distaff side,
- distinction,
- DNA,
- emergence,
- endowment,
- engender,
- epigenesis,
- eugenics,
- eumerogenesis,
- existence,
- extraction,
- factor,
- family,
- father,
- female line,
- filiation,
- freshman year,
- Galtonian theory,
- gene,
- generation,
- genesiology,
- genesis,
- genetic code,
- genetics,
- genteelness,
- gentility,
- give birth to,
- giving birth,
- hatching,
- having a baby,
- having life,
- hereditability,
- heredity,
- heritability,
- heritage,
- heterogenesis,
- histogenesis,
- homogenesis,
- honorable descent,
- house,
- immortality,
- inborn capacity,
- inception,
- inchoation,
- incipience,
- incipiency,
- incunabula,
- infancy,
- inheritability,
- inheritance,
- isogenesis,
- labor,
- life,
- lifetime,
- line,
- line of descent,
- lineage,
- liveliness,
- living,
- long life,
- longevity,
- male line,
- matrocliny,
- Mendelianism,
- Mendelism,
- merogenesis,
- metagenesis,
- miscarriage,
- monogenesis,
- mother,
- multiparity,
- nascence,
- nascency,
- nativity,
- nobility,
- noble birth,
- nobleness,
- onset,
- opening,
- origin,
- origination,
- orthogenesis,
- outset,
- outstart,
- pangenesis,
- parentage,
- parthenogenesis,
- parturition,
- patrocliny,
- pharmacogenetics,
- phylum,
- pregnancy,
- procreate,
- procreation,
- quality,
- race,
- rank,
- recessive character,
- replication,
- RNA,
- royalty,
- seed,
- sept,
- side,
- sire,
- slip,
- spear side,
- spindle side,
- spontaneous generation,
- spriteliness,
- start,
- stem,
- stirps,
- stock,
- strain,
- succession,
- sword side,
- the Nativity,
- the stork,
- travail,
- Verworn theory,
- viability,
- vitality,
- vivacity,
- Weismann theory,
- Weismannism,
- Wiesner theory,
- youth
Words containing 'Birth'
- Birthing,
- birthe,
- Live birth,
- New birth,
- To give birth to,
- active birth,
- alternative birth,
- alternative birthing,
- birth canal,
- birth certificate,
- birth control,
- birth defect,
- birth pangs,
- birth prevention,
- birth rate,
- birth trauma,
- birthing coach,
- breech birth,
- give birth,
- give birth to,
- giving birth,
- place of birth,
- posthumous birth,
- vaginal birth,
- virgin birth,
- Cross-birth,
- birth control device,
- birth control pill,
- birth-control campaigner,
- birth-control reformer,
- calendar method of birth control,
- rhythm method of birth control,
- low-birth-weight baby,
- low-birth-weight infant,
- The Mysticete or whalebone whales having no true teeth after birth but with a series of plates of whalebone see Baleen hanging down from the upper jaw on each side thus making a strainer through which they receive the small animals upon which they feed