Sire
noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
- 2 male parent of an animal especially a domestic animal such as a horse wordnet
- 3 A male animal that has fathered a particular offspring (especially used of domestic animals and/or in biological research).
- 4 the founder of a family wordnet
- 5 A father; the head of a family; the husband. obsolete
"He but a Duke, would haue his Sonne a King, / And raiſe his iſſue like a louing Sire."
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- 6 a title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority wordnet
- 7 A creator; a maker; an author; an originator. obsolete
"Most musical of mourners, weep again! / Lament anew, Urania!—He died, / Who was the sire of an immortal strain, […]"
- 8 The vampire who turned another person.
"There is a toxin in a vampire’s fangs that will infect its victim when the sire drinks deeply and fully of their blood."
- 1 To father; to beget. transitive
"In these travels, my father sired thirteen children in all, four boys and nine girls."
- 2 make (offspring) by reproduction wordnet
- 3 To turn (another person) into a vampire. transitive
"“Do you think they were wannabes, then? Groupies who found a willing vamp to sire them?”"
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More examples"Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis."
Etymology
From Middle English sire, from Old French sire, the nominative singular of seignor; from Latin senior, from senex. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, senior, señor, senyor, signore, and sir. Cognate with French monsieur.