Dictionary Entry
breeding
breeding is a 8-letter English word with 12 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Breed. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1present participle
of Breed
- 2noun
The act or process of generating or bearing.
- 3noun
The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.
- 4noun
Nurture; education; formation of manners.
- 5noun
Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society.
- 6noun
Descent; pedigree; extraction.
- 7noun
the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
Synonyms
- 8noun
the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization
- 9noun
helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
"they debated whether nature or nurture was more important"
- 10noun
elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
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- 11noun
the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
"a woman of breeding and refinement"
- 12adjective
producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring
"the breeding population"
"retained a few bulls for breeding purposes"
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