birth

/bˈɝθ/ · 1 syllable

Meaning

noun

1. the time when something begins (especially life)
   “they divorced after the birth of the child”
2. the event of being born
   “they celebrated the birth of their first child”
3. the process of giving birth
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”

verb

1. cause to be born
   “My wife had twins yesterday!”

Synonyms for birth

• nativity
• nascency
• nascence
• parturition
• giving birth
• birthing
• parentage
• give birth
• deliver
• bear
• have

Antonyms of birth

• death

Words that rhyme with birth

• earth
• berth
• worth
• rebirth
• girth
• dearth
• firth
• unearth
• childbirth
• mirth
• ashworth
• beckworth
• bloodsworth
• bloodworth
• burnsworth
• burnworth
• butterworth
• chatsworth
• cudworth
• cutbirth
• dillworth
• ducksworth
• duckworth
• dunsworth
• dunworth
• ellingsworth
• elsworth
• foxworth
• fuerth
• furth