Birth - Definition

n 1: the time when something begins (especially life); "they
divorced after the birth of the child"; "his election
signaled the birth of a new age" [ant: death, demise,
dying]
2: the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their
first child" [syn: birth, nativity, nascency,
nascence] [ant: death, decease, expiry]
3: the process of giving birth [syn: parturition, birth,
giving birth, birthing]
4: the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents [syn:
parentage, birth]
5: a baby born; an offspring; "the overall rate of incidence of
Down's syndrome is one in every 800 births"
v 1: cause to be born; "My wife had twins yesterday!" [syn:
give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have]