Dictionary entry details
• BIRTH (noun)
Meaning:
The time when something begins (especially life)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Context examples:
they divorced after the birth of the child / his election signaled the birth of a new age
Hypernyms ("birth" is a kind of...):
beginning; commencement; first; get-go; kickoff; offset; outset; showtime; start; starting time (the time at which something is supposed to begin)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "birth"):
cradle (birth of a person)
Holonyms ("birth" is a part of...):
life; life-time; lifespan; lifetime (the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death))
Antonym:
death (the time when something ends)
Meaning:
The event of being born
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
nascence; nascency; nativity; birth
Context example:
they celebrated the birth of their first child
Hypernyms ("birth" is a kind of...):
alteration; change; modification (an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "birth"):
delivery (the event of giving birth)
live birth (the birth of a living fetus (regardless of the length of gestation))
posthumous birth (birth of a child by Caesarean section after the death of the mother)
posthumous birth (birth of a child after the father has died)
rebirth; reincarnation; renascence (a second or new birth)
Antonym:
death (the event of dying or departure from life)
Meaning:
The process of giving birth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
birthing; giving birth; parturition; birth
Hypernyms ("birth" is a kind of...):
biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "birth"):
egg laying; laying (the production of eggs (especially in birds))
hatch; hatching (the production of young from an egg)
farrow; farrowing (the production of a litter of pigs)
accouchement; childbearing; childbirth; vaginal birth (the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child)
calving (giving birth to a calf)
brooding; incubation (sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body)
childbed; confinement; labor; labour; lying-in; parturiency; travail (concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child)
Holonyms ("birth" is a part of...):
reproduction (the process of generating offspring)
Meaning:
The kinship relation of an offspring to the parents
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Synonyms:
parentage; birth
Hypernyms ("birth" is a kind of...):
family relationship; kinship; relationship ((anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption)
• BIRTH (verb)
Meaning:
Cause_to_be_born
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
birth; give birth; bear; deliver; have
Context example:
My wife had twins yesterday!
Hypernyms (to "birth" is one way to...):
bring forth; produce (bring forth or yield)
"Birth" entails doing...:
conceive (become pregnant; undergo conception)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "birth"):
litter (give birth to a litter of animals)
lamb (give birth to a lamb)
kitten (have kittens)
foal (give birth to a foal)
drop (give birth; used for animals)
twin (give birth to twins)
bear; carry; expect; gestate; have a bun in the oven (be pregnant with)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
