birth /bɜrθ/
1. the time when something begins (especially life); "they divorced after the birth of the child"; "his election signaled the birth of a new age"
synset: birth
2. the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their first child"
synset: birth, nativity, nascency, nascence
antonym: death, decease, expiry
3. the process of giving birth
synset: parturition, birth, giving_birth, birthing
4. the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents
5. a baby born; an offspring; "the overall rate of incidence of Down's syndrome is one in every 800 births"
synset: birth
1. cause to be born; "My wife had twins yesterday!"
synset: give_birth, deliver, bear, birth, have
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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