Birth
[bɜːθ] or [bɝθ]
Definition
(noun.) the event of being born; 'they celebrated the birth of their first child'.
(noun.) a baby born; an offspring; 'the overall rate of incidence of Down's syndrome is one in every 800 births'.
(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'.
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Definition
(n.) The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.
(n.) Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.
(n.) The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.
(n.) The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth.
(n.) That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.
(n.) Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.
(n.) See Berth.
Checker: Sigmund
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Nativity, coming into life.[2]. Lineage, extraction, descent, race, family, line, ancestry.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Parentage, extraction, nativity, family, race, origin, source, rise, lineage,nobility
ANT:Death, extinction, plebeianism
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Definition
n. a ship's station at anchor.
n. the act of bearing or bringing forth: the offspring born: dignity of family: origin.—n. Birth′day the day on which one is born or the anniversary of that day.—adj. relating to the day of one's birth.—ns. Birth′day-book a book in diary form in which the birthdays of one's friends are entered in their autographs; Birth′dom (Shak.) birthright; Birth′-mark a peculiar mark on one's body at birth; Birth′night the night on which one is born or the anniversary of that night; Birth′place the place of one's birth; Birth′right the right or privilege to which one is entitled by birth: native rights.—adj. Birth′-strang′led (Shak.) strangled in birth.—n. Birth′-wort a genus of perennial plants formerly used medicinally in cases of difficult parturition.
Editor: Megan
Unserious Contents or Definition
For a married woman to dream of giving birth to a child, great joy and a handsome legacy is foretold. For a single woman, loss of virtue and abandonment by her lover.
Editor: Randolph
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis who wrote in the tenth century avers that he grew up out of the ground where a priest had spilled holy water. It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth made by a stroke of lightning. Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Aetna and I have myself seen a man come out of a wine cellar.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
An aid to life, discovered by Woman. Higher preferred.
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Examples
- Superiority of birth supposes an ancient superiority of fortune in the family of the person who claims it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Contents of chapter, “His birth and estate. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- We owe the railroad chiefly to the needs of the north of England, and there we find the real birth of the locomotive. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Most of its motives are purely instinctive, and all the mental life that it has is the result of heredity (birth inheritance). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was voted low to sneer at Dobbin about this accident of birth. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- To midnight revelry, and the panting emulation of beauty, to costly dress and birth-day shew, to title and the gilded coronet, farewell! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Bring writing materials when you come next to my cell, and within a few hours we shall see you garbed in a style befitting your birth and carriage. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble birth, or liberal education. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- You, who opposed to both, when your hair was grey, the qualities which made both when you gave him birth! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Birth, abilities, and education, had been equally marking one as an associate for her, to be received with gratitude; and the otherwhat was she? Jane Austen. Emma.
- From the hour of her birth she has never been known to do anything for herself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Only once she cried aloud, at the stinging thought of the faithlessness which gave birth to that abasing falsehood. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Yes, thou shalt revisit the land of thy birth, I thought, as I looked invidiously on the airy voyager; but we shall, never more! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- My opponent had the advantage of birth over me (he was a citizen by adoption) and carried off the prize. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In their own estimation they were aliens in the country which had given them birth. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- And this lawful use of them seems likely to be often needed in the regulations of marriages and births. Plato. The Republic.
- Now this number represents a geometrical figure which has control over the good and evil of births. Plato. The Republic.
- At this point the whole routineer scheme of things collapses, there is a period of convulsion and C?sarean births, and men weary of excitement sink back into a newer routine. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- To the book of Genesis the reader must go to read how Abraham, being childless, doubted this promise, and of the births of Ishmael and Isaac. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For when your guardians are ignorant of the law of births, and unite bride and bridegroom out of season, the children will not be goodly or fortunate. Plato. The Republic.
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