Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

birthhood

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: birth-hood
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The state, quality, or condition of being born; nativity.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Conception, gestation and birthhood are the sublimest manifestations of the God-power among men!"
"Accept me on your laps And let me close your womb The fortune of your birthhood [...]"
"[...] its lights still burning with undiminished splendor; its altars still blazing with their sacred fires; its truth still pure as in the day of its birthhood; [...]"
"I am too much the geneticist to believe that the carrier's interest in the baby "outbonds" the interest of the married couple who donated their gametes in a preembryonic "bond," watched the entity they created achieve birthhood, and then stood by and saw their procreative dreams dashed by a cheating contract-breaker."
"Also Alexander, as well as several Hindu Sages, as Salivahana and Gautama, bore the mantle of divine birthhood, being said to have been produced by a serpent entwining around their mothers."

Etymology

From birth + -hood.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: birth

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

birthhoods (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

bornness

Questions

What does birthhood mean?: The state, quality, or condition of being born; nativity.
Where does birthhood come from?: From birth + -hood.

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