Synonyms for birth
bɜrθ

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1. birth(noun)

   the time when something begins (especially life)

   "they divorced after the birth of the child"; "his election signaled the birth of a new age"

   Synonyms:
   giving birth, nascency, parturition, parentage, nascence, nativity, birthing

   Antonyms:
   decease, death, expiry, demise, dying

2. birth, nativity, nascency, nascence(noun)

   the event of being born

   "they celebrated the birth of their first child"

   Synonyms:
   nativity, parentage, giving birth, parturition, nascence, birthing, nascency

   Antonyms:
   death, decease, demise, expiry, dying

3. parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing(noun)

   the process of giving birth

   Synonyms:
   nascency, parturition, nascence, parentage, birthing, nativity, giving birth

   Antonyms:
   death, demise, decease, expiry, dying

4. parentage, birth(noun)

   the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents

   Synonyms:
   nascence, birthing, lineage, stock, parturition, bloodline, nativity, nascency, stemma, descent, blood, origin, parentage, parenthood, line of descent, line, blood line, pedigree, ancestry, giving birth

   Antonyms:
   expiry, decease, death, demise, dying

5. birth(verb)

   a baby born; an offspring

   "the overall rate of incidence of Down's syndrome is one in every 800 births"

   Synonyms:
   giving birth, nascency, parturition, parentage, nascence, nativity, birthing

   Antonyms:
   decease, demise, death, expiry, dying

6. give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have(verb)

   cause to be born

   "My wife had twins yesterday!"

   Synonyms:
   let, digest, take in, extradite, rescue, tolerate, get, hand over, comport, surrender, behave, make, return, give, save, fork over, fork up, present, stick out, expect, deport, possess, assume, pay, induce, take over, throw, redeem, have, put up, cause, carry, give up, turn in, support, stomach, hold, have got, feature, stimulate, render, abide, pitch, cede, deliver, take, acquit, brook, yield, turn out, experience, conduct, fork out, suffer, endure, stand, gestate, drive home, contain, accept, sustain, own, ingest, consume, have a bun in the oven, give birth, receive, wear, bear

   Antonyms:
   demise, dying, death, expiry, decease

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1. birth(adjective)

   Synonyms:
   consanguineous, biological, blood

2. birth(adjective)

   A familial relationship established by childbirth.

   Her birth father left when she was a baby; she was raised by her mother and stepfather.

   Synonyms:
   consanguineous, blood, biological

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1. birth

   Kind is broader than kin, denoting the most general relationship, as of the whole human species in mankind, humankind, etc.; kin and kindred denote direct relationship that can be traced through either blood or marriage, preferably the former; either of these words may signify collectively all persons of the same blood or members of the same family, relatives or relations. Affinity is relationship by marriage, consanguinity is relationship by blood. There are no true antonyms of kin or kindred, except those made by negatives, since strangers, aliens, foreigners, and foes may still be kin or kindred.

   Synonyms:
   affinity, alliance, blood, consanguinity, descent, family, kin, kind, kindred, race, relationship

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. birth

   Synonyms:
   parentage, extraction, nativity, family, race, origin, source, rise, lineage, nobility

   Antonyms:
   death, extinction, plebeianism

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. birth(n.)

   Synonyms:
   nativity, coming into life

2. birth(n.)

   Synonyms:
   lineage, extraction, descent, race, family, line, ancestry

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1. List of paraphrases:

   births, childbirth, born, birthing, rise, nacer, native-born, incurrence, nacimiento, light, emergence, natality, delivery, confinement, fertility, congenital, natal, birthrate, kong-born

How to pronounce birth?

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British

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Australian

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Indian

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How to use birth in a sentence?

1. Laura Berman:

   Stress during pregnancy can be harmful for both mom and baby, being stressed while expecting can increase a woman's chance of postpartum depression. It can also lead to preterm delivery and low birth weight.

2. Cindy De La Hoz:

   She was a fatherless child, her birth father would not marry her mother … He allowed [ Sophia ] to use his last name, but everyone in town knew she was illegitimate. She was made fun of for that. And growing up, she saw war all around her house. She had very, very little food. When air raids would strike the town, she and her family would run for over and had to go in hiding … There was disease, rodents … Because they had such scarcity of food, she was very, very thin. That’s how she gained her nickname in school, Toothpick.

3. Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being:

   Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

4. Mitchell Burgess:

   If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before.

5. Barack Obama:

   No one is happier—no one is prouder—to put this birth certificate matter to rest than The Donald, and that’s because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter: Like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?

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