1. breed - Noun
2. breed - Verb
3. Breed - Proper noun
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 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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryProud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. Emily Brontë
In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time. Kiran Desai
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
Envy can breed swans from bad duck eggs. Russian Proverb
Whoever wants honey must breed bees. Russian Proverb
Breed up a serpent and he will strike when you are in deep slumber. Togolese Proverb