meaning of breed
1. To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
2. To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
3. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.
4. To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
5. To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
6. To raise, as any kind of stock.
7. To produce or obtain by any natural process.
8. To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.
9. To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.
10. To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
11. To raise a breed; to get progeny.
12. A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.
13. Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.
14. A number produced at once; a brood.
Related Words
breed | breedbate | breede | breeder | breeding | breedle |
