birth
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
birth/bɜːθ/
▶noun
- 1 the emergence of a baby or other young from the body of its mother; the start of life as a physically separate being.
- 2 the beginning of something.
- 3 a person's ancestry or origin: he is of noble birth.
– derivatives
birthing noun.
birthing noun.
– phrases
give birth bear a child or young.
give birth bear a child or young.
'birth' also found in these Oxford entries:
accouchement
- AD
- afterbirth
- Anglo-Indian
- antenatal
- antepartum
- aristocracy
- baby boom
- baby bust
- bear
- bed
- beestings
- birth certificate
- birth control
- birthday
- birthing pool
- birthmark
- birth mother
- birth parent
- birth rate
- birthright
- birth sign
- birthstone
- birthweight
- blood relation
- blue blood
- born
- breech birth
- bring
- brood
- bulge
- calve
- carl
- caul
- century
- cerebral palsy
- childbearing
- childbirth
- Childe
- Christian era
- Christmas
- church
- colostrum
- confine
- congenital
- cub
- date
- deliver
- delivery
