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

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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 for "birth":

   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?

Alex

US English

Daniel

British

Karen

Australian

Veena

Indian

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How to use birth in a sentence?

1. Yang Zongtao:

   Marriage and reproduction are closely related. The decline in the marriage rate will affect the birth rate, which in turn affects economic and social developments, this( issue) should be brought to the forefront.

2. Vatsal Surti:

   Life, dreams, thoughts. Formless and endless. A billion years before our birth. A billion years after it. And in the middle, for a single moment, to see only one person, feeling everything else covered in a white light.

3. Tarachand Pohiya:

   They are poor people. The mother and the uncle can not read or write. They don't have any official documents to show when she was born. There's no birth certificate recording exactly when she was born.

4. Rachel Dolezal:

   But for sure there is some similarity in terms of harmonizing the outer appearance with the inner feeling, in terms of stigmatized identities, some people will forever see me as my birth category and nothing further. And the same with Caitlyn.

5. Tia Freeman:

   Anyway they thought I was a human trafficker trying to smuggle out a baby, so they called in customs, the police a doctor a nurse (to check the baby me to see if I actually gave birth), and the airline higher ups. I was bombarded with questions (naturally) but finally I proved that I wasn’t a trafficker. During this I called the @USEmbassyTurkey.

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