Synonyms of births

births 1 of 2

noun

plural of birth

1

as in nativities

the act or instance of being born

almost from birth, he showed all the marks of future greatness

Synonyms & Similar Words

• nativities
• maternities
• geneses
• originations
• genitures
• generations
• parentings
• reproductions
• paternities
• bearings
• breedings
• creations
• labors
• parturitions
• accouchements
• childbearings
• rises
• nascencies
• fatherhoods
• motherhoods
• parenthoods

2

as in ancestries

the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended

a man of noble birth

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ancestries
• lineages
• genealogies
• pedigrees
• families
• origins
• breedings
• extractions
• descents
• blood
• bloodlines
• family trees
• strains
• stocks
• parentages
• successions
• lines
• relatives
• relations
• races
• houses
• heredities
• kindreds
• kins

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• issues
• seed
• offspring
• progenies
• children
• sons
• posterities
• successors
• heirs
• inheritors

3

as in beginnings

the point at which something begins

that 12-second flight by Orville Wright marked the birth of aviation

Synonyms & Similar Words

• beginnings
• commencements
• inceptions
• starts
• onsets
• alphas
• launches
• geneses
• infancies
• thresholds
• baselines
• dawns
• kickoffs
• inaugurations
• outsets
• originations
• initiations
• incipiencies
• nascencies
• mornings
• incipiences
• day ones
• origins
• nascences
• arrivals
• childhoods
• drawing boards
• first bases
• ground zeros
• institutions
• get-goes
• emergences
• germs
• cradles
• wells
• fountains
• openings
• creations
• sources
• advents
• square ones
• springs
• appearances
• youths
• debuts
• fountainheads
• wellsprings
• seedbeds
• roots

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• endings
• conclusions
• ends
• periods
• closes
• terminations
• closings
• closures
• completions
• stops
• finishes
• omegas
• cessations
• finales
• windups

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• produces
• has
• mothers
• delivers
• gives birth to
• labors
• bears
• fathers
• drops
• breeds
• spawns
• reproduces
• generates
• kids
• calves
• litters
• gets
• propagates
• multiplies
• begets
• sires
• kittens
• pups
• kindles
• whelps

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• aborts
• loses
• miscarries

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of births

Noun

Ashley Randolph Ashley Randolph transformed personal struggles into hope and support for Black families navigating premature births. — The Sacramento Bee Staff, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026

Since then, the zoo saw the arrival of another panda and the births of several cubs before the pandas left in 2019 due to a loan agreement ending with the People's Republic of China. — Angeline Jane Bernabe, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026

In Chicago, births declined 37% between 2010 and 2023, according to Illinois Department of Public Health data. — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026

Elephant seal populations peak at the Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal Rookery in late October, early May and late January, when most births occur. — David G. Allan, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2026

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

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