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UK
/bˈɜːθ/
]
[ US /ˈbɝθ/ ]
[ US /ˈbɝθ/ ]
NOUN
-
a baby born; an offspring
the overall rate of incidence of Down's syndrome is one in every 800 births -
the time when something begins (especially life)
his election signaled the birth of a new age
they divorced after the birth of the child -
the event of being born
they celebrated the birth of their first child - the process of giving birth
- the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents
VERB
-
cause to be born
My wife had twins yesterday!
How To Use birth In A Sentence
- The sad fact is that if the Democrats had tried to make a big issue of the matter the press would have criticized them unmercifully for spoiling the 100th birthday celebrations of a great man with their petty partisan politics.
- The adolescent and teenage birth rate has fallen by nearly half since 1992.
- The birth of her son was a minor interruption to her career.
- Commissioned in 1963 to make a film about America's first successful quintuplet birth, Leacock and Joyce Chopra captured the quints' mother's anxiety at her sudden celebrity and the surrounding South Dakota community's eagerness to cash in on it. The Man Who Held Up a Mirror to America
- One for the latex lovers in your life, this anniversary alternative event is circus-themed, but remember to peel off your strongman's handlebar 'tache if you want to tuck into the birthday cake in the chillout room. Clubs picks of the week
- The estimated annual number of births affected with a neural tube defect is about 400,000 world wide.
- My birth mother hugged me and muttered something in my ear. Times, Sunday Times
- None of the fathers' job descriptions given on the birth certificate referred to work at a nuclear establishment.
- After childbirth she herself seems reborn. Times, Sunday Times
- He pledged his gold watch to pay for her birthday gift.
