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sire is a noun and verb meaning "a title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority
the founder of a family
“keep the faith of our forefathers”
male parent of an animal especially a domestic animal such as a horse
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sire come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.