1. Noun
The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.
2. Noun
Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.
3. Noun
The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.
4. Noun
The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth.
5. Noun
That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.
6. Noun
Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.
7. Noun
See Berth.
8. Noun
the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents
Vocabulary classified under Sociology
9. 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"
Vocabulary classified under Sociology
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