The Meaning of breed

• (v. t.) To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
• (v. t.) To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
• (v. t.) To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.
• (v. t.) To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
• (v. t.) To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
• (v. t.) To raise, as any kind of stock.
• (v. t.) To produce or obtain by any natural process.
• (v. i.) To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.
• (v. i.) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.
• (v. i.) To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
• (v. i.) To raise a breed; to get progeny.
• (n.) A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.
• (n.) Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.
• (n.) A number produced at once; a brood.

Synonyms

strain , stock , engender , spawn , cover , multiply

Homophones

brede

Rhymes

accede , agreed , aidid , airspeed , alwaleed , aniseed , appleseed , aristede , aristide , bead , bede , beede , bleed , brede , cede , centipede , concede , cottonseed , creed , decreed , dede , deed , degreed , disagreed , duckweed , ede , exceed , fede , feed , fireweed , flaxseed , frede , freed , freid , fried , friede , gaede , ganymede , gilead , glede , gleed , greed , guaranteed , hamid , heed , impede , inbreed , indeed , intercede , keyed , knead , kneed , laclede , lead , leed , linseed , lipide , mead , meade , milkweed , misdeed , mislead , misread , need , nied , nosebleed , oilseed , peed , pitied , plead , pokeweed , precede , proceed , proofread , prophesied , ragweed , rapeseed , rasheed , rashid , read , recede , reed , reid , reread , reseed , ried , riede , schmead , screed , seaweed , secede , seed , shaheed , siegfried , sinead , skied , smead , snead , sneed , speed , stampede , steed , streed , succeed , swede , teide , thede , thiede , tiede , treed , tweed , vahid , wahid , waleed , walid , weed , wied , wrede