Word Finder - birth

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The process of childbearing; the beginning of life.

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An instance of childbirth.

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Intersex babies account for roughly one per cent of all births.

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A beginning or start; a point of origin.

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the birth of an empire

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The circumstances of one's background, ancestry, or upbringing.

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He was of noble birth, but fortune had not favored him.

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That which is born.

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To bear or give birth to (a child).

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To produce, give rise to.

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A familial relationship established by childbirth.

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Her birth father left when she was a baby; she was raised by her mother and stepfather.

He even had a birth certificate for me.

A year later they started a family with the birth of their first daughter.

Birth information showed her age at twenty-six.

Giving birth had no way diminished her beauty.

If she was a human, she wouldn't be giving birth out here in the barn.

On the 22nd of October 1715 Alexius' consort, the princess Charlotte, died, after giving birth to a son, the grand-duke Peter, afterwards Peter II.

His birth and position in society were not bad.

His birth father already suspected she was a country bumpkin.

No doubt Tessa was in labor and searching for a private place to give birth - some place high in the rocks, away from the water, but sheltered from the wind.

Toby's birth certificate listed her as the mother, no father, and the naval hospital in Annapolis as his birthplace.

That she give birth to the baby and march up to the parsonage steps?

Taking a deep breath, she hesitantly inserted her hand into the birth canal and carefully slid it along the tiny leg until she felt the muzzle.

Everything had a name, and each name gave birth to a new thought.

There were biographical forms and consent forms she hadn't really read, all signed in a loopy, angry signature, and a copy of Toby's birth certificate.

Did you get to witness the birth?

Her birth itself was romantic. Her father was playing a country dance at the house of a fellow officer, the future husband of Sophie's sister, when he was told that his wife, who had not long left the room, had borne him a daughter.

Alex took them all to dinner to celebrate the birth.

As the activity of a subject or spirit it is essentially a new birth.

Why is it good when you adopt a baby that isn't yours, but bad if it's yours and you don't give birth to it?

The birth of her child was imminent, if not past due.

I can get each of you two sets of ID, birth certificate, passport, driver's license, charge cards and a brief history that will check out.

While Cynthia might not have "come to terms" with her quickly acquired family, she was positively thrilled to announce the wedding to all who'd listen, skirting the impending birth like a ballet dancer, concentrating on lace and promises, even if the color was off-white.

There are obvious points of similarity, possibly of derivation, between the details in our text and the above myths, but the subject cannot be further pursued here, save that we remark that in the sun myth the dragon tries to kill the mother before the child's birth, whereas in our text it is after his birth, and that neither in the Egyptian nor in the Greek myth is there any mention of the flight into the wilderness.

A very, very few people, however, were freed from this sustenance lifestyle, either by their fortuitous birth or outstanding ability.

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine; and moreover, it is given me to rouse and guide this bright intelligence.

At the end of January, Princess gave birth to the first foal on the ranch that wasn't sired by Ed.

Claire Elizabeth is one of us now and bears the surname Gustefson, not Leblanc as her birth certificate reads.

No woman had given birth in many sun-cycles, because the planet's spirit was severed without the dhjan and the nishani.

I thought about substituting her birth control pills with something.

His first college at Oxford, in perishing, gave birth to St John's College, which now holds its site.

The inconsistency of selling funeral requisites in the temple of Libitina, seeing that she is identified with Venus, is explained by him as indicating that one and the same goddess presides over birth and death; or the association of such things with the goddess of love and pleasure is intended to show that death is not a calamity, but rather a consummation to be desired.

The date of his birth is doubtful, the authorities varying between 1311 and 1324.

By the craft of Hera, his foe through life, his birth was delayed, and that of Eurystheus, son of Sthenelus of Argos, hastened, Zeus having in effect sworn that the elder of the two should rule the realm of Perseus.

The revolution had given birth to a strong nationalistic spirit in Turkish Moslems and a desire to restore the empire to something of its former power, but had not diminished their religious zeal.

On an eminence in the western part of the city are the ruins of a large square citadel with a small whitewashed building, called Molud Khaneh (the house of birth), in which Fath Ali Shah was born (1772).

His father was a country merchant from Tennessee, who moved soon after his son's birth to Hannibal, Missouri, a little town on the Mississippi.

Her last appearance was as Almahide to the Almanzor of Hart, in Dryden's The Conquest of Granada (1670), the production of which had been postponed some months for her return to the stage after the birth of her first son by the king.

In June of the same year he wrote a Latin poem on the birth of the young prince James, whom he described as serenissimus princeps of France and England.

Germans by birth or descent still constitute a majority of the population.

Tournaments in particular are fertile occasions of all the deadly sins; and mystery plays, except those of the birth and resurrection of Christ performed in the churches, also lead men into transgression.

We may first trace in outline the history of the birth of palaeontological ideas, from the time of their first adumbration.

Beside it was the name of their Oracle mother, Kinila, who had gone crazy soon after Damian's birth.

His mother, Agnes Pincheon, is said to have been of gentle birth.

But both at Rome and at Athens we see, at a stage earlier than the final reform, an attempt to set up a standard of wealth, either instead of or alongside of the older standard of birth.

We see that men of birth and wealth often allowed themselves a strange licence in dealing with their low-born fellow-citizens.

And in the Great Council itself we have the lively image of the aristocratic popular assembly of Rome, the assembly of the populus, that of the curiae, where every man of patrician birth had his place.

For a certain class of citizens to be condemned, by virtue of their birth, to political disfranchisement is as flatly against every principle of democracy as for a certain class of citizens to enjoy exclusive rights by reason of birth.

The story that Earl Godwine himself was of churlish birth, whether true or false, marks the possibility of such a rise.

While thus carried about by the host-insect, the female is fertilized by the free-flying male, and gives birth to a number of tiny triungulin larvae.

In the two former divisions the influence of wealth and birth predominated; the hillmen were poorly housed, poorly clad and unable to make use of the privileges which Solon had given them.'