breeding

1. 1.

   producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring

   “the breeding population”

   “retained a few bulls for breeding purposes”

   Similarfruitful

Other forms of breeding

plural

breedings·

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 breeding

What does breeding mean?

breeding means "elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in breeding?

breeding has 2 syllables: bree-ding. The stress falls on "bree". In IPA it is /ˈbɹidɪŋ/.

What is another word for breeding?

Close synonyms include genteelness, gentility, education, training, bringing up. 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.

Is breeding a common word?

breeding is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 breeding?

1 word rhymes with breeding. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.