birth
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Is birth a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) 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.uncountable
2. (countable) An instance of childbirth.Examples: "Intersex babies account for roughly one per cent of all births."; "In Greece a child was given its name on the seventh or tenth day after birth."countable
3. (countable) A beginning or start; a point of origin.Examples: "the birth of an empire"countable
4. (uncountable) The circumstances of one's background, ancestry, or upbringing.Examples: "He was of noble birth, but fortune had not favored him."; "without reference to birth, but solely for their qualifications"; "Lucy […] had no fortune, which, though a minor evil, was an evil; and she had no birth, in the high-life sense of the word, which was a greater evil."uncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To bear or give birth to (a child).Examples: "I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!"; "Kelly: Is it true we have a pod containing a baby krogan down in the cargo hold? Shepard: Not a baby. He's a full-grown super soldier ready for combat. Kelly: Please be careful if you decide to... err... birth him? His personality is completely unknown."; "She cites some recent examples from the papers: “I birthed two babies in rapid succession”; Beyoncé “birthed her twins”; while somewhere else in the same paper a woman proudly proclaimed: “I birthed a calf!”. She ends: “My objection to the American usage is that it seems to stress rather crudely the muscular process of bringing forth a baby, whereas the graceful British English term ‘to give birth to’ is much more dignified!”"transitive
2. (transitive, figuratively) To produce, give rise to.Examples: "Biological evolution created a human mind that enabled cultural evolution, which now outpaces and outclasses the force that birthed it."figurativelytransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary