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Webster 1913 Edition
Breeding
Breed′ing
,Noun.
1.
The act or process of generating or bearing.
2.
The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals;
as, farmers should pay attention to
. breeding
3.
Nurture; education; formation of manners.
She had her
breeding
at my father’s charge. Shakespeare
4.
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.
Delicacy of
breeding
, or that polite deference and respect which civility obliges us either to express or counterfeit towards the persons with whom we converse. Hume.
5.
Descent; pedigree; extraction.
[Obs.]
Honest gentlemen, I know not your
breeding
. Shakespeare
Close breeding
, In and in breeding
breeding from a male and female from the same parentage.
– Cross breeding
, breeding from a male and female of different lineage.
– Good breeding
, politeness; genteel deportment.
Syn. – Education; instruction; nurture; training; manners. See
Education
. Webster 1828 Edition
Breeding
BREE'DING
,ppr.
BREE'DING
,Noun.
1.
The raising of a breed or breeds; as, the farmer attends to the breeding of sheep.2.
Nurture; education; instruction; formation of manners.She had her breeding at my father's charge.
3.
By way of eminence, manners; knowledge of ceremony; deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life. Hence good breeding is politeness, or the qualifications which constitute genteel deportment.Definition 2024
breeding
breeding
English
Noun
breeding (countable and uncountable, plural breedings)
- The process through which propagation, growth or development occurs.
- 2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 222:
- Plant breeding is always a numbers game. […] The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true.
- Your dog has had good breeding.
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- The act of insemination by natural or artificial means.
- The act of copulation in animals.
- The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity.
- Nurture; education; formation of manners.
- Shakespeare
- She had her breeding at my father's charge.
- Shakespeare
- Descent; pedigree; extraction.
- Shakespeare
- Honest gentlemen, I know not your breeding.
- Shakespeare
- (gay slang) Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex, usually applied to gay pornography.
Translations
process through which propagation, growth or development occurs
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act of inseminating by natural or artificial means
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copulation of animals
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good manners as characteristic of the aristocracy
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Adjective
breeding (not comparable)
- Of, relating to or used for breeding.
- Your toothbrush is a breeding ground for bacteria.
Derived terms
Verb
breeding
- present participle of breed
- Through genetic manipulation and harsh training, I am breeding a species of super-dogs to take over the world.