birth
birth is a 5-letter English word with 13 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.
- noun. Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.
- noun. The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.
- noun. The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth.
- noun. That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.
- noun. Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.
- noun. See Berth.
- noun. the event of being born
"they celebrated the birth of their first child"
- noun. a baby born; an offspring
"the overall rate of incidence of Down's syndrome is one in every 800 births"
- noun. the process of giving birth
- noun. the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents
- noun. the time when something begins (especially life)
"they divorced after the birth of the child"
"his election signaled the birth of a new age"
- verb. cause to be born
"My wife had twins yesterday!"
Synonyms
nascence, nascency, nativity, birthing, parturition, parentage, bear, deliver, have
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in birth:
Common word forms
births, birthed, birther, birthing, birthless
Words from these letters
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