breeding

Speech parts

1. breeding - Noun

2. breeding - Adjective

3. breeding - Verb

5. breeding - Adjective Satellite

6. Breeding - Proper noun

Meaning

of Breed

The act or process of generating or bearing.

The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.

Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society.

Descent; pedigree; extraction.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

education training nurture raising reproduction fostering rearing procreation fosterage manners upbringing genteelness gentility bringing up x-ray

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Antonyms

limiting blocking forbidding arresting crippling barring

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Hypernyms

production sex elegance upbringing socialization acculturation

Hyponyms

generation multiplication propagation miscegenation interbreeding crossbreeding

Phrases with the word

animal breeding Plant breeding good breeding breeding mare breeding grounds fish breeding

Anagrams

bigender beringed

Examples

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. Mark Twain

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding. Fanny Kemble

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. George Bernard Shaw

Birth is much, but breeding is more. Spanish Proverb

With fowls, the pedigree; with men, breeding. Myanmar Proverb

Breeding rather than birth. Japanese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

breedermobile breedership breediness breeding animals breeding area breeding bottom