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    birth
    /bəːθ/

    noun

    verb

    • 1. give birth to (a baby or other young): informal North American "she birthed five children within ten years"

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  3. Learn the meaning of birth as a noun and a verb, with synonyms, antonyms and idioms. Find out how to use birth in different contexts, such as family origin, social position, or the beginning of something.

  4. Learn the meaning of birth as a noun, verb, and adjective, with synonyms, examples, and word history. Find out how to use birth in a sentence and related phrases and articles.

  5. noun. us / bɝːθ / uk / bɜːθ / Add to word list. A2 [ C or U ] the time when a baby or young animal comes out of its mother's body: It was a difficult birth. He weighed eight pounds at birth. More men are present at the births of their children these days. The application form will ask for your country / place of birth (= where you were born). [ C ]

  6. the act or process of bearing or bringing forth offspring; childbirth; parturition: a difficult birth. lineage; extraction; descent: of Grecian birth. Synonyms: family, blood, line, ancestry, parentage. high or noble lineage: to be foolishly vain about one's birth. natural heritage: a musician by birth. any coming into existence; origin; beginning:

  7. Learn the meaning, pronunciation and usage of the word birth in English. Find out the different meanings of birth as a noun, such as the time of a baby's birth, a person's origin, or a new situation.

  8. Birth is the emergence and separation of offspring from the body of the mother, or the act or process of bearing young. The web page provides various definitions of birth from different dictionaries, as well as related words and phrases, such as childbirth, nativity, and palingenesis.

  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”. see more. noun. the event of being born. “they celebrated the birth of their first child”. synonyms: nascence, nascency, nativity.