Breed
To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.
To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
To raise, as any kind of stock.
To produce or obtain by any natural process.
To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.
To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.
To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
To raise a breed; to get progeny.
A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.
Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.
A number produced at once; a brood.
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Breed Quotations
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Stephen Hawking
Breed is stronger than pasture.
George Eliot
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
William Penn
There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.
Dave Barry
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
George Santayana
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis Bacon
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
For what can war, but endless war, still breed?
John Milton
We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it.
Lawrence Taylor
Breed Translations
breed in Afrikaans is ras, teel, oplei, aanhou
breed in Danish is avle, opdrage, race
breed in Dutch is opkweken, fokken, opfokken, telen
breed in Finnish is kasvattaa, rotu
breed in Italian is procreare, razza
breed in Spanish is casta, raza
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