The process of childbearing; the beginning of life; the emergence of a human baby or other viviparous animal offspring from the mother's body into the environment.
An instance of childbirth.
Intersex babies account for roughly one per cent of all births.
Obsolete spelling of berth.
He vvas a Surgeon, and they called him Doctor; but he vvas not employed in the Sloop as a Surgeon, but vvas going to Berbadoes to get a Birth, as the Sailors call it.
A familial relationship established by childbirth.
Her birth father left when she was a baby; she was raised by her mother and stepfather.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *bʰértisder. Proto-Germanic *burþiz Old Norse burðrbor. Middle English birthe English birth From Middle English ...
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Biological evolution created a human mind that enabled cultural evolution, which now outpaces and outclasses the force that birthed it.