Breed

//bɹiːd//

Synonyms for "breed" (335 found)

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Closest matches (67)

Strong matches (101)

Noun(1 words)
half-breed

Related words (167)

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Noun(2 words)
stockstrain

Related word relations

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10 relation types

More general

15 entries

Synonyms

2 entries

Related terms

1 entries

dbpedia genre

2 entries

derived

39 entries

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has context

1 entries

is a

5 entries

manner of

3 entries

related to

8 entries

similar

4 entries

Translations

288 translations across 57 languages.

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Arabic

1 entries
  • رَبَّى verb (to take care of in infancy and through childhood)

Azerbaijani

1 entries
  • çoxalmaq verb (to sexually produce offspring)

Bulgarian

4 entries
  • порода noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • произход noun (race or lineage)
  • род noun (race or lineage)
  • отглеждам verb (to sexually produce offspring)

Campidanese Sardinian

4 entries
  • allevai verb (to sexually produce offspring)
  • allevai verb (to keep animals and have them reproduce)
  • pesai verb (to sexually produce offspring)
  • pesai verb (to keep animals and have them reproduce)

Catalan

4 entries
  • raça noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • raça noun (race or lineage)
  • varietat noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • criar verb (to sexually produce offspring)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 育种 verb (to keep animals and have them reproduce)
  • 配種 /配种 verb (of animals, to mate)

Czech

4 entries
  • plemeno noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • plemeno noun (race or lineage)
  • rasa noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • rasa noun (race or lineage)

Danish

4 entries
  • race noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • race noun (race or lineage)
  • sort noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • sort noun (race or lineage)

Dutch

4 entries
  • broedsel noun (race or lineage)
  • gebroed noun (race or lineage)
  • variëteit noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • fokken verb (to keep animals and have them reproduce)

Esperanto

4 entries
  • raso noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • raso noun (race or lineage)
  • bredi verb (to keep animals and have them reproduce)
  • selekti verb (to arrange mating of animals)

Finnish

4 entries
  • lajike noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • rotu noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • rotu noun (race or lineage)
  • astuttaa verb (to arrange mating of animals)

French

4 entries
  • race noun (race or lineage)
  • engendrer verb (to sexually produce offspring)
  • se reproduire verb (to sexually produce offspring)
  • élever verb (to keep animals and have them reproduce)

Friulian

1 entries
  • raze noun (race or lineage)

Galician

4 entries
  • raza noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • raza noun (race or lineage)
  • variedade noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • afillar verb (to sexually produce offspring)

Gallurese

2 entries
  • allià verb (to sexually produce offspring)
  • allià verb (to keep animals and have them reproduce)

German

4 entries
  • Art noun (group of people with shared characteristics)
  • Gattung noun (group of people with shared characteristics)
  • Rasse noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • Rasse noun (race or lineage)

Greek

2 entries
  • ράτσα noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • ράτσα noun (race or lineage)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • זַן noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)

Hindi

4 entries
  • कुल noun (race or lineage)
  • ज़ात noun (race or lineage)
  • जिंस noun (race or lineage)
  • जिनस noun (race or lineage)

Hungarian

4 entries
  • fajta noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • fajta noun (group of people with shared characteristics)
  • szerzet noun (group of people with shared characteristics)
  • típus noun (group of people with shared characteristics)

Ido

2 entries
  • edukar verb (to keep animals and have them reproduce)
  • edukar verb (to arrange mating of animals)

Indonesian

2 entries
  • membesarkan verb (to sexually produce offspring)
  • mengembangbiakkan verb (to keep animals and have them reproduce)

Ingrian

1 entries
  • naittaa verb (to propagate or grow plants)

Irish

4 entries
  • síolrach noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • síolrach noun (race or lineage)
  • póraigh verb (to keep animals and have them reproduce)
  • póraigh verb (to arrange mating of animals)

Italian

4 entries
  • razza noun (race or lineage)
  • allevare verb (to sexually produce offspring)
  • allevare verb (to keep animals and have them reproduce)
  • riprodursi verb (to sexually produce offspring)

Japanese

2 entries
  • 育てる verb (to sexually produce offspring)
  • 育成する verb (to sexually produce offspring)

Korean

4 entries
  • 계통 noun (race or lineage)
  • 품종 noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • 가꾸다 verb (to propagate or grow plants)
  • 거두다 verb (to take care of in infancy and through childhood)

Kyrgyz

4 entries
  • бак noun (race or lineage)
  • порода noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • багуу verb (to propagate or grow plants)
  • бак verb (to propagate or grow plants)

Latin

1 entries
  • pariō verb (to yield or result in)

Low German

4 entries
  • Raaß noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • Raaß noun (race or lineage)
  • Rooß noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • Rooß noun (race or lineage)

Malay

1 entries
  • baka noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)

Manchu

1 entries
  • ᡶᡠᠰᡝᠮᠪᡳ verb (to sexually produce offspring)

Middle English

2 entries
  • breden verb (of animals, to mate)
  • breden verb (to take care of in infancy and through childhood)

Māori

2 entries
  • aihono verb (to arrange mating of animals)
  • whakaaiai verb (to sexually produce offspring)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • rase noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • rase noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)

Occitan

4 entries
  • abalir verb (to keep animals and have them reproduce)
  • abalir verb (to take care of in infancy and through childhood)
  • acoblar verb (of animals, to mate)
  • apariar verb (of animals, to mate)

Ottoman Turkish

3 entries
  • صوی noun (race or lineage)
  • نسل noun (race or lineage)
  • یاورولامق verb (to sexually produce offspring)

Polish

4 entries
  • gatunek noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • rasa noun (race or lineage)
  • hodować verb (to keep animals and have them reproduce)
  • hodować verb (to propagate or grow plants)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • raça noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • raça noun (race or lineage)
  • variedade noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • criar verb (to keep animals and have them reproduce)

Romanian

1 entries
  • rasă noun (race or lineage)

Russian

4 entries
  • пле́мя noun (race or lineage)
  • поро́да noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • поро́да noun (group of people with shared characteristics)
  • ра́са noun (race or lineage)

Sardinian

2 entries
  • pesare verb (to sexually produce offspring)
  • pesare verb (to keep animals and have them reproduce)

Sassarese

2 entries
  • allibà verb (to sexually produce offspring)
  • allibà verb (to keep animals and have them reproduce)

Scottish Gaelic

4 entries
  • gnè noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • gnè noun (race or lineage)
  • seòrsa noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • seòrsa noun (race or lineage)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • loza noun (race or lineage)
  • pasmina noun (race or lineage)
  • rasa noun (race or lineage)
  • soj noun (race or lineage)

Slovak

4 entries
  • plemeno noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • plemeno noun (race or lineage)
  • rasa noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • rasa noun (race or lineage)

Spanish

4 entries
  • casta noun (race or lineage)
  • cepa noun (race or lineage)
  • raza noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • raza noun (race or lineage)

Swedish

4 entries
  • ras noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • ras noun (race or lineage)
  • sort noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • sort noun (race or lineage)

Tamil

2 entries
  • இனம் noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • இனம் noun (race or lineage)

Tatar

1 entries
  • токым noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)

Turkish

1 entries
  • ırk noun (race or lineage)

Tày

1 entries
  • au làng verb (of animals, to mate)

Ukrainian

4 entries
  • злуча́ти verb (to arrange mating of animals)
  • злучи́ти verb (to arrange mating of animals)
  • розвести́ verb (to keep animals and have them reproduce)
  • розво́дити verb (to keep animals and have them reproduce)

Volapük

1 entries
  • bridön verb (to sexually produce offspring)

Walloon

2 entries
  • raece noun (race or lineage)
  • sôre noun (race or lineage)

Welsh

4 entries
  • brid noun (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies)
  • bridio verb (to sexually produce offspring)
  • bridio verb (of animals, to mate)
  • bridio verb (to keep animals and have them reproduce)

Sample sentences

36 total sentences available.

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I always have to check my yard for stagnant pools of water so mosquitoes don't breed there.

Source: tatoeba (1990)

The crocodile, which produces only male young in hotter weather, might die out too because there will be no females to breed.

Source: tatoeba (28917)

Bacteria will not breed in alcohol.

Source: tatoeba (35480)

Rats breed rapidly.

Source: tatoeba (35794)

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