Overview of noun birth

The noun birth has 5 senses

• birth -- (the time when something begins (especially life); "they divorced after the birth of the child"; "his election signaled the birth of a new age")


• birth, nativity, nascency, nascence -- (the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their first child")


• parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing -- (the process of giving birth)


• parentage, birth -- (the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents)


• birth -- (a baby born; an offspring; "the overall rate of incidence of Down's syndrome is one in every 800 births")

Overview of verb birth

The verb birth has 1 sense

• give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have -- (cause to be born; "My wife had twins yesterday!")