Word Meanings - BIRTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

bear, bring forth; akin to D. geboorate, OHG. burt, giburt, G. geburt, Icel. bur, Skr. bhrti bearing, supporting; cf. Ir. & Gael. 1. The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a

Additional info about word: BIRTH

bear, bring forth; akin to D. geboorate, OHG. burt, giburt, G. geburt, Icel. bur, Skr. bhrti bearing, supporting; cf. Ir. & Gael. 1. The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son. 2. Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction. Elected without reference to birth, but solely for qualifications. Prescott. 3. The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency. A foe by birth to Troy's unhappy name. Dryden. 4. The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth. "At her next birth." Milton. 5. That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable. Poets are far rarer births that kings. B. Jonson. Others hatch their eggs and tend the birth till it is able to shift for itself. Addison. 6. Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire. New birth , regeneration, or the commencement of a religious life. Syn. -- Parentage; extraction; lineage; race; family.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BIRTH)

• Situation
• Locality
• position
• top
• site
• seat
• post
• place
• condition
• residence
• aspect
• footing
• office
• birth
• plight
• predicament
• standing

Related words: (words related to BIRTH)

• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• FOOTMARK
  A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• FOOTPLATE
  See
• FOOTBRIDGE
  A narrow bridge for foot passengers only.
• FOOTHOLD
  A holding with the feet; firm L'Estrange.
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• STANDPIPE
  A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level
• CONDITIONAL
  Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
• FOOTFIGHT
  A conflict by persons on foot; -- distinguished from a fight on horseback. Sir P. Sidney.
• PREDICAMENTAL
  Of or pertaining to a predicament. John Hall .
• FOOTROPE
  The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse. That part of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed.
• FOOTBATH
  A bath for the feet; also, a vessel used in bathing the feet.
• FOOTBOARD
  1. A board or narrow platfrom upon which one may stand or brace his feet; as: The platform for the engineer and fireman of a locomotive. The foot-rest of a coachman's box. 2. A board forming the foot of a bedstead. 3. A treadle.
• FOOTHALT
  A disease affecting the feet of sheep.
• FOOTPACE
  1. A walking pace or step. 2. A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase. Shipley.
• GOOSEFOOT
  A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• SURFOOT
  Tired or sore of foot from travel; lamed. Nares.
• SALTFOOT
  A large saltcellar formerly placed near the center of the table. The superior guests were seated above the saltfoot.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• STILLBIRTH
  The birth of a dead fetus.
• FOURFOOTED
  Having four feet; quadruped; as, fourfooted beasts.
• CHILDBIRTH
  The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• APPOSITION
  The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• FOALFOOT
  See COLTSFOOT
• PLOWFOOT; PLOUGHFOOT
  An adjustable staff formerly attached to the plow beam to determine the depth of the furrow. Piers Plowman.
• SHEEP'S-FOOT
  A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer.
• LOBEFOOT
  A bird having lobate toes; esp., a phalarope.