'Breeding' definitions:

Definition of 'breeding'

From: WordNet
adjective
Producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring; "the breeding population"; "retained a few bulls for breeding purposes"
noun
Elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression [syn: breeding, genteelness, gentility]
noun
The result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior); "a woman of breeding and refinement" [syn: education, training, breeding]
noun
Helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important" [syn: breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing]
noun
The production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization
noun
The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring [syn: reproduction, procreation, breeding, facts of life]

Definition of 'Breeding'

From: GCIDE
  • Breed \Breed\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bred; p. pr. & vb. n. Breeding.] [OE. breden, AS. br[=e]dan to nourish, cherish, keep warm, from br[=o]d brood; akin to D. broeden to brood, OHG. bruoten, G. br["u]ten. See Brood.]
  • 1. To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. [1913 Webster]
  • Yet every mother breeds not sons alike. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster. [1913 Webster]
  • To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • Born and bred on the verge of the wilderness. --Everett. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up. [1913 Webster]
  • But no care was taken to breed him a Protestant. --Bp. Burnet. [1913 Webster]
  • His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease. [1913 Webster]
  • Lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. To raise, as any kind of stock. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. To produce or obtain by any natural process. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Children would breed their teeth with less danger. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: To engender; generate; beget; produce; hatch; originate; bring up; nourish; train; instruct. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Breeding'

From: GCIDE
  • Breeding \Breed"ing\, n.
  • 1. The act or process of generating or bearing. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Nurture; education; formation of manners. [1913 Webster]
  • She had her breeding at my father's charge. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society. [1913 Webster]
  • Delicacy of breeding, or that polite deference and respect which civility obliges us either to express or counterfeit towards the persons with whom we converse. --Hume. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Descent; pedigree; extraction. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Honest gentlemen, I know not your breeding. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Close breeding, In and in breeding, breeding from a male and female from the same parentage.
  • Cross breeding, breeding from a male and female of different lineage.
  • Good breeding, politeness; genteel deportment. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: Education; instruction; nurture; training; manners. See Education. [1913 Webster] Breeze

Synonyms of 'breeding'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Breeding'