birth

nacimiento.

1. m. Acción y efecto de nacer.

2. m. por antonom. nacimiento de Jesucristo.

ORTOGR. Escr. con may. inicial.

3. m. Lugar o sitio donde brota un manantial.

4. m. Ese mismo manantial.

5. m. Lugar o sitio donde tiene alguien su origen o principio.

6. m. Principio de algo o tiempo en que empieza.

7. m. Representación con figuras del nacimiento de Jesucristo en el portal de Belén.

8. m. Origen de una persona en orden a su calidad.
Fuente: Diccionario de la Real Academia Española

2. Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.
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Elected without reference to birth, but solely for qualifications. --Prescott.
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3. The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.
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A foe by birth to Troy s unhappy name. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

4. The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth. ``At her next birth. --Milton.
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5. That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.
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Poets are far rarer births than kings. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]

Others hatch their eggs and tend the birth till it is able to shift for itself. --Addison.
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6. Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire. [1913 Webster]

New birth (Theol.), regeneration, or the commencement of a religious life.
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Syn: Parentage; extraction; lineage; race; family. [1913 Webster]

Birth Birth, n. See {Berth}. [Obs.] --De Foe.
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birth control irth control n. the act or process of deliberately limiting the number of
one s children born, especially by preventing conception.

Note: Conception may be prevented by ingesting medicines, using barriers such as condoms or spermicides during
copulation, or by ligating or removing the reproductive
organs.

Syn: birth prevention, family planning. [WordNet 1.5]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English