sire
IPA: sˈaɪɝ
noun
- A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
- A male animal that has fathered a particular offspring (especially used of domestic animals and/or in biological research).
- (obsolete) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
- (obsolete) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
verb
- (transitive, of a male) To father; to beget.
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Examples of "sire" in Sentences
- He was not successful as a sire.
- A sire of international influence.
- Determine proved to be a good sire.
- Secretariat was not a failure as a sire.
- A sire is a teacher, a parent, and a guardian.
- He was sired by Night Raid from Entreaty by Winkie.
- The horse's sire line tracing to the foundation sire Maestoso.
- It should simply be the male donkey is the sire and the horse is the dam.
- At the conclusion of the duet Hamlet enters and addresses Claudius as Sire.
- Equipoise sired the 1942 KD winner, but it wasn't Equestrian, it was Shut Out.