English noun: birth |
1. | birth (time) the time when something begins (especially life) |
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| Samples | They divorced after the birth of the child. His election signaled the birth of a new age.
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| Broader (hypernym) | beginning, commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | cradle |
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| Part meronym | life, life-time, lifespan, lifetime |
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| Antonyms | demise, dying, death |
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2. | birth (event) the event of being born |
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| Samples | They celebrated the birth of their first child.
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| Synonyms | nascence, nascency, nativity |
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| Broader (hypernym) | alteration, change, modification |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | delivery, live birth, posthumous birth, posthumous birth, rebirth, reincarnation, renascence |
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| Antonyms | death, decease, expiry |
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3. | birth (process) the process of giving birth |
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| Synonyms | birthing, giving birth, parturition |
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| Broader (hypernym) | biological process, organic process |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | accouchement, brooding, calving, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, confinement, egg laying, farrow, farrowing, hatch, hatching, incubation, labor, labour, laying, lying-in, parturiency, travail, vaginal birth |
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| Part meronym | reproduction |
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4. | birth the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents |
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| Synonyms | parentage |
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| Broader (hypernym) | family relationship, kinship, relationship |
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5. | birth (person) a baby born; an offspring |
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| Samples | The overall rate of incidence of Down's syndrome is one in every 800 births.
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| Broader (hypernym) | individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul |
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English verb: birth |
1. | birth (body) cause to be born |
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| Samples | My wife had twins yesterday!.
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| Synonyms | bear, deliver, give birth, have |
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| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody |
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| Broader (hypernym) | bring forth, produce |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | bear, calve, carry, cub, drop, expect, farrow, fawn, foal, gestate, have a bun in the oven, have young, kitten, lamb, litter, pig, pup, twin, whelp |
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| Entail | conceive |
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| Verb group | bear, carry, expect, gestate, have a bun in the oven |
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