Breeding

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  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • 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. Descent; pedigree; extraction.
  • noun. breeding from a male and female from the same parentage.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. breeding from a male and female of different lineage.
  • noun. politeness; genteel deportment.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The process through which propagation, growth or development occurs.
  • noun. The act of insemination by natural or artificial means
  • noun. The act of copulation in animals
  • noun. Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex, usually applied to gay pornography
  • adjective. Of, relating to or used for breeding.
  • verb. Present participle of breed.
  • 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
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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    verb-stem
    breed