birth

1. 1.

   cause to be born

   “My wife had twins yesterday!”

   Synonymsgive birthdeliverbearhave

   Broaderproduce

   Narrowertwindropfoalcubkittenlamblitterwhelpfarrowfawn

Other forms of birth

plural

births·

past tense

birthed·

present participle

birthing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about birth

What does birth mean?

birth means "the time when something begins (especially life)". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in birth?

birth has 1 syllable: birth. In IPA it is /ˈbɝθ/.

What is another word for birth?

Close synonyms include nativity, nascency, nascence, parturition, giving birth. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of birth?

The recorded antonyms are death, death.

Is birth a common word?

birth is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with birth?

3 words rhyme with birth. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.