birth

Plural: 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"
• the event of being born
  • "they celebrated the birth of their first child"
• the process of giving birth
• the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents
• a baby born; an offspring
  • "the overall rate of incidence of Down's syndrome is one in every 800 births"
• The process of childbearing; the beginning of life; the emergence of a human baby or other viviparous animal offspring from the mother's body into the environment.
• An instance of childbirth.
• A beginning or start; a point of origin.
• The circumstances of one's background, ancestry, or upbringing.
• That which is born.
• Obsolete spelling of berth.

Verb

Verb Forms: birthed, birthing, births

• To give rise to; to originate or begin.
• cause to be born
• To bear or give birth to (a child).
• To produce, give rise to.

Adj

• A familial relationship established by childbirth.

Examples

• Each new word played on the Scrabble board gave birth to new possibilities.
• He was of noble birth, but fortune had not favored him.
• Her birth father left when she was a baby; she was raised by her mother and stepfather.
• Intersex babies account for roughly one per cent of all births.
• the birth of an empire

Synonyms

bear, birthing, deliver, give birth, giving birth, have, nascence, nascency, nativity, parentage, parturition, biological, blood, consanguineous

Antonyms

death

Related Words

bear, born

Anagrams of birth