Definition of Breed

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Definition of Breed

Breed

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.

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.

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.

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Breed Quotations

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Stephen Hawking

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis Bacon

There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.
Dave Barry

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
Knute Rockne

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
George Santayana

Breed is stronger than pasture.
George Eliot

Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.
Mercedes McCambridge

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
William Penn

Breed Translations

breed in Afrikaans is ras, teel, oplei, aanhou
breed in Danish is avle, opdrage, race
breed in Dutch is opkweken, fokken, opfokken, telen
breed in Finnish is kasvattaa, rotu
breed in Italian is procreare, razza
breed in Spanish is casta, raza

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