Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One's line of descent; ancestry.
- noun Upbringing or education, especially in proper social behavior.
- noun The production of offspring or young.
- noun The propagation of animals or plants.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of generating or producing.
- noun The rearing of cattle or live stock of any kind, particularly by mingling or crossing one strain of a species of variety with another, with a view to improve the breed. See
cross-breeding and in-and-in. - noun Upbringing; nurture; education; instruction.
- noun Deportment of behavior in social life; manners, especially good manners: as, good breeding (politeness); a man of no breeding (that is, a very ill-bred man).
- noun In society his good breeding and vivacity made him always welcome. Macaulay, Dramatists of the Restoration.
- noun Descent; extraction.
- noun Synonyms Generation, production. Raising. Training, discipline.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of generating or bearing.
- noun The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals.
- noun Nurture; education; formation of manners.
- noun 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.
- noun obsolete Descent; pedigree; extraction.
- noun breeding from a male and female from the same parentage.
- noun breeding from a male and female of different lineage.
- noun politeness; genteel deportment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The process through which
propagation ,growth ordevelopment occurs. - noun The act of
insemination by natural or artificial means - noun The act of
copulation in animals - noun gay slang
Ejaculation inside therectum duringbareback anal sex , usually applied togay pornography - adjective Of, relating to or used for breeding.
- verb Present participle of
breed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring
- noun helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
- noun the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
- noun elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
- noun the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
- noun the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization
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Examples
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III. ii.31 (278,2) [complain of good breeding] I am in doubt whether the custom of the language in Shakespeare's time did not authorise this mode of speech, and make _complain of good breeding_ the same with _complain_ of the want of _good_ breeding.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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Pumpkin breeding is done by hand, with breeders using pollen from one variety to pollinate another, he said.
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Pumpkin breeding is done by hand, with breeders using pollen from one variety to pollinate another, he said.
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Pumpkin breeding is done by hand, with breeders using pollen from one variety to pollinate another, he said.
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Pumpkin breeding is done by hand, with breeders using pollen from one variety to pollinate another, he said.
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For the last, the term breeding-in, or close breeding, is generally deemed more suitable.
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For the latter, the term breeding in, or close breeding, is deemed more fitting.
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Mr. Wen said he is concerned that corruption, in his words, poses the biggest danger to the government and called for institutional reform to eliminate what he described as the "breeding ground of corruption."
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Mr. Wen said he is concerned that corruption, in his words, poses the biggest danger to the government and called for institutional reform to eliminate what he described as the "breeding ground of corruption."
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Females begin breeding at about 8 to 10 months old, or as young as 6 months if food is abundant.
My family owns and opperates a small farm which has recently built up a decent wild hog population. 2009
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