BIRTHS Synonyms: 144 Similar and Opposite Words

births 1 of 2

noun

plural of birth

as in nativities

the act or instance of being born almost from birth, he showed all the marks of future greatness

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as in ancestries

the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended a man of noble birth

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as in beginnings

the point at which something begins that 12-second flight by Orville Wright marked the birth of aviation

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births

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of birth, chiefly dialect

as in produces

to bring forth from the womb back in those days a woman her age would have birthed several children

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Recent Examples of births

Noun

The wars, weddings, births, massacres, famines, our triumphs, our defeats, our past. — Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2026 There’s been an 18% drop in preterm births and a 27% drop in low birth weight in the city of Flint, the first Rx Kids community. — Mona Hanna, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026 That was the conclusion of a study published late last year in the ICES Journal of Marine Science that examined decades worth of data on the population sizes, births and deaths of gray whales and the biomass of Arctic crustaceans. — Ainslie Cruickshank, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2026 Issacharoff did not identify a source or time period for his assertion that births have exceeded deaths. — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2026 Postpartum psychosis is far less common, affecting roughly 1 to 3 mothers per 1,000 births, according to ACOG. — ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026 That’s compared with over a decade ago when more than 500,000 births were common during the same period. — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026 Burdett also had fewer preterm births and fewer babies with low birth weights. — Noam Levey, NPR, 1 Sep. 2026 Mann added that the American Academy of Pediatrics does not recommend home births. — Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026

Verb

Both sides of the island are necessary and complementary, just like the proverbial oyster grit that births the pearl. — Jonnie Bayfield, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2026 Although healthy individuals may only suffer short-term symptoms, a listeria infection can cause miscarriages and still births among pregnant women. — Greta Cross, USA Today, 19 June 2026 This births a star that continually accretes more gas and becomes more massive. — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 28 Apr. 2026 With the resources available to urban coyotes, the average coyote births six new pups. — Caden Perry, jsonline.com, 9 Apr. 2026 The film charts his romances and business endeavors, including a nightclub that seemingly births the jazz movement. — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for births

Noun

But Shanes questioned whether grouping Jews under a single ethnic category would produce sufficiently specific data for those purposes, or instead obscure differences among Jewish populations with distinct ancestries.

— Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2026
This technique overcomes limitations of older methods like genotyping arrays, which were often biased towards European ancestries and less accurate.

— William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of ancestries

Noun

Despite their rural beginnings, spending time in downtown Atlanta was a big part of Shyretha and Mike’s adulthood.

— Olivia Wakim, AJC.com, 24 Sep. 2026
The unraveling of a previous romantic relationship and the beginnings of her current love story with boyfriend and fellow country music artist Morgan Evans, inform her latest album.

— Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of beginnings

Verb

Host Alan Cumming executive produces with Mike Cotton, Sam Rees-Jones, Rosie Franks, Jack Burgess, Stephen Lambert, Tim Harcourt and Doran Azouelos.

— Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2026
And powering the thing is a 125cc engine that produces all of 9 horsepower.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of produces

Noun

The researchers have shared their findings with the IUCN, whose upcoming review will assess the five lineages separately.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2026
When a massive asteroid impact triggered a global extinction 66 million years ago, almost all dinosaurs and early bird lineages died out.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of lineages

Verb

The brain’s surface has ridges and valleys, and CTE tangles are found in the depths of those valleys, called the cortical sulci, and surround blood vessels.

— Alexandra Pattillo, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2026
Packers lose lineman Green Bay Packers offensive tackle Zach Bako-Bewele has a torn patellar tendon and expects to miss the rest of the season.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of has

Noun

Sometimes, though, these genealogies of behavior can seem beside the point, serving only to dull one’s analysis of the situation.

— Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2026
The scientists’ method reconstructs genealogies, or maps showing where different pieces of DNA came from and how they were passed down, revealing branches of our evolutionary past.

— Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026