birth

die Geburt

(to) give birth – zur Welt brin­gen
Bei­spiel:
Bar­ba­ra gave birth to four child­ren. – Bar­ba­ra brach­te vier Kin­der zur Welt.

date of birth – das Geburts­da­tum
Bei­spiel:
My sister’s date of birth is 3 Janu­ary 2010. – Das Geburts­da­tum mei­ner Schwes­ter ist der 3. Janu­ar 2010.

place of birth – der Geburts­ort
Bei­spiel:
A pass­port shows your name and place of birth. – Ein Rei­se­pass ent­hält Ihren Namen und Ihren Geburts­ort.

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
birth (noun)
1.
a) the emergence of a new individual from the body of its parent
b) the act or process of bringing forth young from the womb
2.
a state resulting from being born especially at a particular time or place - a Southerner by birth
3.
a) - lineage extraction
b) high or noble birth
4.
a) archaic one that is born
b) - beginning start
birth (verb)
transitive verb
1.
chiefly dialect to bring forth
2.
a) to give rise to - originate
intransitive verb
b) to give birth to to bring forth or be brought forth as a child or young
birth (adjective)
- biological his birth mother
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
birth (adjective)
being such by blood and not by adoption or marriage
SYNONYMS:
biological ( biologic), birth, consanguineous
RELATED WORDS:
legitimate
NEAR ANTONYMS:
illegitimate
adopted, adoptive, nonbiological
birth (noun)
1.
the act or instance of being born
SYNONYMS:
geniture, nativity
RELATED WORDS:
creation, genesis, nascency, origination, rise; accouchement, bearing, childbearing, labor, parturition; begetting, breeding, fathering, generation, mothering, parenting, reproduction, siring, spawning; fatherhood, maternity, motherhood, parenthood, paternity
NEAR ANTONYMS:
abortion, miscarriage; stillbirth
birth (noun)
2.
the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended
SYNONYMS:
birth, blood, bloodline, breeding, descent, extraction, family tree, genealogy, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stock, strain
RELATED WORDS:
heredity, succession; family, house; kin, kindred, relations, relatives; race
NEAR ANTONYMS:
offspring; child, heir, inheritor, son, successor
issue, posterity, progeny, seed
birth (noun)
3.
the point at which something begins
SYNONYMS:
alpha, baseline, birth, commencement, dawn, day one, genesis, get-go ( git-go), inception, incipience, incipiency, kickoff, launch, morning, nascence, nascency, onset, outset, start, threshold
RELATED WORDS:
drawing board, first base, ground zero, square one; creation, founding, inauguration, initiation, institution, origination; cradle, fountain, fountainhead, germ, origin, root, seedbed, source, spring, well, wellspring; dawning, opening; advent, appearance, arrival, debut ( début), emergence; childhood, infancy, youth
NEAR ANTONYMS:
cessation, closing, closure, completion, finale, finish, period, stop, termination, windup
close, conclusion, end, ending, omega
birth (verb)
to bring forth from the womb
SYNONYMS:
birth, deliver, drop, have, mother, produce
RELATED WORDS:
labor; breed, multiply, propagate, reproduce, spawn; beget, father, generate, get, sire; calve, kid, kindle, kitten, litter, pup, whelp
NEAR ANTONYMS:
abort, lose, miscarry
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