birth
IPA: bˈɝθ
noun
- (uncountable) The process of childbearing; the beginning of life; the emergence of a human baby or other viviparous animal offspring from the mother's body into the environment.
- (countable) An instance of childbirth.
- (countable) A beginning or start; a point of origin.
- (uncountable) The circumstances of one's background, ancestry, or upbringing.
- That which is born.
- Misspelling of berth. [A fixed bunk for sleeping (in caravans, trains, etc).]
verb
- (transitive) To bear or give birth to (a child).
- (transitive, figuratively) To produce, give rise to.
adjective
- A familial relationship established by childbirth.
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Examples of "birth" in Sentences
- There is a festal celebration for the birth of the child.
- Was the pregnancy and the birth of the child good news for her
- The film shows the birth of the child in extremely graphic detail.
- She died in the following year after the birth of a stillborn child.
- The parent loves the child unconditionally at the moment of its birth.
- The woman continues with the prescribed medicines until the child birth.
- The midwife tells her in the middle of the birth that her child is a boy.
- The books center around a prophecy that foretells the birth of the Star Child.
- At birth, a horoscope is made for the child based on the position of the stars.
- With the birth of each child, the parents suffered the same spiritual demotion.
- WARBURTON.] _Native_ is here not natural birth, but _natural parent_, or _cause of birth_.
- Bettmann/Corbis THE ADVOCATE | Sanger around 1915, a year after she coined the term 'birth control.'
- V. i.214 (376, 4) [Your choice is not so rich in worth as beauty] [W. in birth] _Worth_ is as proper as _birth.
- And they don't use the term "birth control" for IUDs and some forms of the pill that do destroy fertilized eggs, or have the potential to do so.
- Another objection was her birth: "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" but as it was _birth merely and solely_, {p. 254} this has been abandoned.
- So much gentler than dead baby or grey lifeless body, with the word birth even being a cruel hoax, since the child will never take a breath and their mother's soul will be forever changed by an immutable, indelible loss.
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