Definition of Birth

  • (n.) The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.
  • (n.) Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.
  • (n.) The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.
  • (n.) The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth.
  • (n.) That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.
  • (n.) Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.
  • (n.) See Berth.

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