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Breeding

noun

1.

Elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression. Synonyms: genteelness, gentility.

2.

The result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior). Synonyms: education, training.

3.

Helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community. Synonyms: bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing.

4.

The production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization.

5.

The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring. Synonyms: facts of life, procreation, reproduction.

adjective

1.

Producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring. "Retained a few bulls for breeding purposes"

Breed

verb

(past & past part. bred; pres. part. breeding)

1.

Call forth. Synonyms: engender, spawn.

2.

Copulate with a female, used especially of horses. Synonym: cover.

3.

Cause to procreate (animals).

4.

Have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms). Synonym: multiply. "These bacteria reproduce"

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"Breeding" Quotes from Famous Books

... all," insisted Dorothy. "It is not money but good breeding. There are plenty of poor persons who are just as polished as you call it. Father often told us about a family he visited when he was abroad. They were so poor in clothes—pathetically shabby, and yet they went in the very best society. Father used to make us laugh by his funny ...

— Dorothy Dale • Margaret Penrose

... court, described by Castiglione, may be said to have set the model of good breeding to all Europe, began life under the happiest auspices. From his tutor Odasio of Padua we hear that even in boyhood he cared only for study and for manly sports. His memory was so retentive that he could repeat whole treatises ...

— Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) • John Addington Symonds

... handsome eyes rested on the splashes. She said, after a moment's thought, that they looked "rather gay." She said she thought the eternal black and white of men's evening clothes was "so very dreary." She did her best.... Lady Thisbe Crowborough did her best, too, I suppose; but breeding isn't proof against all possible shocks: she visibly started at sight of me and my Z. I explained that I had cut myself shaving. I said, with an attempt at lightness, that shy men ought always to cut themselves shaving: it made such a good conversational opening. "But surely," she ...

— Seven Men • Max Beerbohm

... young man was born in Yorkshire, of a tolerable family, who had been sufficiently careful in having him instructed in whatever was necessary for a person of his condition, breeding him up to all works of husbandry in general, and also qualifying him in every respect for a gentleman's service; in one of which capacities they were in hopes he would not find it difficult to get his bread. He lived with several persons in the country with unspotted reputation, ...

— Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences • Arthur L. Hayward

... (1) Production: A. Agriculture and stock-breeding. B. Exploitation of minerals. (2) Transformation, Transport and industries:[190] technical processes, division of labour, means of communication. (3) Commerce: exchange and sale, credit. (4) Distribution: system ...

— Introduction to the Study of History • Charles V. Langlois

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