Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis.
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Sire
//saɪə(ɹ)//
Synonyms for "sire" (165 found)
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1 entriesderived
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2 entriesrelated to
13 entriesTranslations
59 translations across 21 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- вели́чество noun (lord, master, or person in authority)
- мъжко животно noun (male animal)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 父兽 noun (male animal)
- 父畜 noun (male animal)
Czech
2 entries- pán noun (lord, master, or person in authority)
- zplodit verb (to father, beget)
Dutch
4 entries- dekhengst noun (male animal)
- sire noun (lord, master, or person in authority)
- verwekker noun (person or animal who fathered offspring)
- verwekken verb (to father, beget)
Esperanto
2 entries- sinjoro noun (lord, master, or person in authority)
- siro noun (lord, master, or person in authority)
Finnish
4 entries- herra noun (lord, master, or person in authority)
- koiras noun (male animal)
- astua verb (to father, beget)
- siittää verb (to father, beget)
French
1 entries- saillir verb (to father, beget)
German
4 entries- Hengst noun (male animal)
- Herr noun (lord, master, or person in authority)
- Kater noun (male animal)
- Männchen noun (male animal)
Hungarian
4 entries- apamén noun (male animal)
- apaállat noun (male animal)
- felség noun (lord, master, or person in authority)
- felséges úr/uram noun (lord, master, or person in authority)
Indonesian
2 entries- pejantan noun (male animal)
- pemacek noun (male animal)
Italian
4 entries- maschio noun (male animal)
- riproduttore noun (male animal)
- sire noun (lord, master, or person in authority)
- stallone noun (male animal)
Japanese
3 entries- 主 noun (lord, master, or person in authority)
- 陛下 noun (lord, master, or person in authority)
- 雄 オス noun (male animal)
Kabuverdianu
1 entries- bodeka verb (to father, beget)
Korean
1 entries- 폐하 noun (lord, master, or person in authority)
Malay
1 entries- induk jantan noun (male animal)
Middle English
1 entries- sire noun (lord, master, or person in authority)
Polish
4 entries- ojciec rodu noun (person or animal who fathered offspring)
- pan noun (lord, master, or person in authority)
- samiec rozpłodowy noun (male animal)
- płodzić verb (to father, beget)
Romanian
1 entries- domn noun (lord, master, or person in authority)
Russian
3 entries- госуда́рь noun (lord, master, or person in authority)
- производи́тель noun (male animal)
- породить verb (to father, beget)
Spanish
4 entries- amo noun (lord, master, or person in authority)
- dueño noun (lord, master, or person in authority)
- semental apareado noun (male animal)
- seor noun (lord, master, or person in authority)
Sundanese
1 entries- pamacek noun (male animal)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
For fourteen years Tom had owned a purebred dog, and he remembered that the breeder had furnished him a pedigree chart showing every dam and sire going back four generations.
Source: tatoeba (5324012)
But, fearing this, the Sire omnipotent / hath buried them in caverns dark and deep, / and o'er them piled huge mountains in a heap, / and set withal a monarch, there to reign, / by compact taught at his command to keep / strict watch, and tighten or relax the rein.
Source: tatoeba (6779225)
Him now Saturnia sought, and thus in lowly strain: / "O AEolus, for Jove, of human kind / and Gods the sovran Sire, hath given to thee / to lull the waves and lift them with the wind, / a hateful people, enemies to me, / their ships are steering o'er the Tuscan sea, / bearing their Troy and vanquished gods away / to Italy."
Source: tatoeba (6779350)
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