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Meaning of 'breed' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Breed [ n.]
- A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.
- Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.
- A number produced at once; a brood.
2 . Breed [ v. i.]
- To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.
- To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.
- To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
- To raise a breed; to get progeny.
3 . Breed [ v. t.]
- To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
- To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
- To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.
- To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
- To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
- To raise, as any kind of stock.
- To produce or obtain by any natural process.

Meaning of 'breed' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . breed [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a special type
Example in sentence:
  • Google represents a new breed of entrepreneurs
Meaning (2):
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
Example in sentence:
  • he created a new strain of sheep;
  • he experimented on a particular breed of white rats
3 . breed [ v]
Meaning (3):
- have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)
Example in sentence:
  • pandas rarely breed in captivity
Meaning (4):
- cause to procreate (animals)
Example in sentence:
  • She breeds dogs
Meaning (5):
- copulate with a female, used especially of horses
Example in sentence:
  • The horse covers the mare

Nearby Words:

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