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Meanings of breeding in English

Catalan
educació
Spanish
educación

Helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community.

educació
Portuguese
reprodução
Catalan
reproducció
Spanish
reproducción

The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring.

reprodução
Catalan
educació
Spanish
elegancia

Elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression.

educació
Portuguese
educação
Catalan
educació
Spanish
educación

The result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)

educação
Synonyms
Examples for "gentility"
Examples for "gentility"
1
The house in Evelina Road was no mere haunt of quiet gentility.
A Book of Scoundrels
2
He walked with a step that was almost affected in its gentility.
Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Pr...
3
The gentility of farming is emphasized by a hundred precepts from Hesiod.
A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
4
The whole record has an old-fashioned gentility that makes its frankness tragic.
Italian Hours
5
Where once gentility abode was now but a rancid and rude incontinence.
Roads of Destiny
1
I only ask you, out of your great virtue and genteelness, to lend me the armor I have asked you for.
The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc
2
You will easily guess that Lady Temple(429) was the poetess, and that we were delighted with the genteelness of the thought and execution.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
3
It seems equally superfluous to prove, that the COMPANIONABLE virtues of good manners and wit, decency and genteelness, are more desirable than the contrary qualities.
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
Usage of breeding in English
1
It could, however, be used in breeding prize livestock or rare animals.
Wired
2
In a statement, the company said the breeding programme will end immediately.
The Irish Times
3
The colony is breeding fast, often causing a problem for local residents.
The South African
4
Government policy at present allows three breeding females within the designated area.
The Guardian
5
Henk has been breeding cows for 30 years and milks year round.
Radio NZ
6
He's involved mainly in organic beef production, breeding calves and finishing animals.
The Irish Times
7
AS, established for breeding and processing various types of fish, particularly salmon.
Reuters
8
It follows a record breeding season last year with 107 ducklings hatching.
Radio NZ
9
His birth is part of a breeding programme for this vulnerable species.
The Irish Times
10
In South Africa lion breeding farms are an extremely popular tourist attraction.
News.com.au
11
The favorite breeding-place of the tubercle bacillus is unfortunately in the home.
Preventable Diseases
12
So she did what any young lady of good breeding would do.
Changeless
13
Oppression, daily petty harassment and humiliation are the breeding ground for violence.
The Irish Times
14
The breeding had started long before Phase I. Malthus had been right.
The Robot Who Looked Like Me
15
The N'Dama cattle-breeding program in Senegal was used as a case study.
Pubmed
16
I first discovered this bird breeding in February in the Khuttuck Hills.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
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Translations for breeding
Breeding through the time
Breeding across language varieties
New Zealand
Common
Ireland
Less common
South Africa
Less common
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