Definition of Birth

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Definition of Birth

Birth

The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.

Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.

The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.

The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth.

That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.

Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.

See Berth.

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Birth Quotations

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Mark Twain

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Erma Bombeck

Labor gives birth to ideas.
Jim Rohn

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
Aristotle

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
Sigmund Freud

Birth Translations

birth in Afrikaans is geboorte
birth in Dutch is geboorte
birth in French is naissance
birth in German is Geburt, Geburt, Herkunft
birth in Latin is ortus
birth in Portuguese is nascimento
birth in Spanish is nacimiento, dispensar

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