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Meaning of birth

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  birth
      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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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