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Sire is a related term of breed.


As a proper noun sire

is .

As a verb breed is

to produce offspring sexually; to bear young.

As a noun breed is

all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.

sire

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
  • A male animal; a stud, especially a horse or dog, that has fathered another.
  • (obsolete) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
  • * Shakespeare
    • And raise his issue, like a loving sire .
  • (obsolete) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
  • * Shelley
    • [He] was the sire of an immortal strain.

    Verb

    (sir)
  • Of a male: to procreate; to father, beget.
  • * 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 6:
    • In these travels, my father sired thirteen children in all, four boys and nine girls.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    breed

    English

    Alternative forms

    * breede (archaic)

    Verb

  • To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
    • , title= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
  • To give birth to; to be the native place of.
    • a pond breeds''' fish; a northern country '''breeds stout men
  • * Shakespeare
    • Yet every mother breeds not sons alike.
  • Of animals, to mate.
  • To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.
  • To arrange the mating of specific animals.
  • To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.
  • To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
  • * Dryden
    • to bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed
  • * Everett
    • born and bred on the verge of the wilderness
  • To yield or result in.
  • * Milton
    • Lest the place / And my quaint habits breed astonishment.
  • (obsolete) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, like young before birth.
  • To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; sometimes followed by up .
  • * Bishop Burnet
    • No care was taken to breed him a Protestant.
  • * John Locke
    • His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in.
  • To produce or obtain by any natural process.
  • * John Locke
    • Children would breed their teeth with less danger.
  • To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Heavens rain grace / On that which breeds between them.

    Synonyms

    * (take care of in infancy and through childhood) raise, bring up, rear

    Derived terms

    * breeder * breeding * breed in the bone

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
    • a breed of tulip
    a breed of animal
  • A race or lineage.
  • (informal) A group of people with shared characteristics.
    • People who were taught classical Greek and Latin at school are a dying breed .

    Anagrams

    * English irregular verbs ----