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birth - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: birth
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: becoming alive
Synonyms: act of God, bearing, beginning, blessed event*, childbirth, creation, delivery, labor, parturition, producing, travail, birthing, childbearing, nascency, natality, nativity, visit from stork
Antonyms: death
Main Entry: birth
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beginning
Synonyms: commencement, dawn, emergence, fountainhead, genesis, onset, opening, origin, outset, rise, source, start, dawning
Antonyms: conclusion, death, end, ending, finish
Main Entry: birth
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: heritage
Synonyms: ancestry, background, blood, breeding, derivation, descent, extraction, genealogy, legacy, line, lineage, pedigree, position, race, rank, station, status, stock, strain, forebears, heritance, parentage
Main Entry: awakening
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: making conscious or alert
Synonyms: birth, incitement, kindling, provocation, rebirth, renewal, revival, rousing, stimulation, waking, activation, animating, arousal, awaking, enlivening, stirring up, vivication, waking up
Antonyms: sleep, sleeping
Main Entry: commencement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ceremony marking the beginning of stage
Synonyms: admission, alpha, birth, bow, celebration, convocation, countdown, dawn, genesis, graduation, initiation, kickoff*, onset, opening, outset, proem, start, curtain-raiser, dawning, opener, services, starting point, tee off
Antonyms: cessation, completion, end, ending, finish, stop
Main Entry: emanate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: come forth; give off
Synonyms: arise, birth, derive, discharge, egress, emerge, emit, exhale, exit, exude, flow, initiate, issue, originate, proceed, radiate, rise, spring, stem, send forth
Antonyms: take, withdraw
Main Entry: family
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: kin, offspring; classification
Synonyms: ancestry, birth, blood, brood, clan, class, descent, dynasty, extraction, folk, genealogy, genre, group, house, household, inheritance, issue, kind, kindred, kith and kin, line, lineage, network, pedigree, people, progeny, race, relationship, strain, subdivision, system, tribe, ancestors, children, descendants, forebears, generations, heirs and assigns, in-laws, ménage, parentage, progenitors, relations, relatives, siblings
Main Entry: genesis
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beginning, creation
Synonyms: alpha, birth, commencement, dawn, formation, generation, inception, opening, origin, outset, propagation, provenance, root, source, start, dawning, engendering, provenience
Antonyms: conclusion, end, finale, finish
Main Entry: inception
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beginning
Synonyms: birth, commencement, dawn, derivation, fountain, inauguration, initiation, kickoff, origin, outset, provenance, rise, root, source, start, well, wellspring, provenience
Antonyms: conclusion, end, ending, finish
Main Entry: lineage
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ancestry
Synonyms: birth, blood, breed, clan, descent, extraction, family, folk, genealogy, heredity, house, kin, kindred, line, offspring, origin, pedigree, progeny, race, stock, succession, tribe, descendants, forebears, progenitors, stirps
Notes: linage (pronounced LYE-nij) refers to the number of lines of printed material, as in a newspaper; lineage (pronounced LIN-ee-ij) refers to ancestry, derivation, or line of descent
Main Entry: onset
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beginning; attack
Synonyms: access, aggression, assault, birth, charge, commencement, dawn, encounter, inception, kickoff*, offense, offensive, onrush, onslaught, opening, origin, outbreak, outset, rush, seizure, start, assailment, dawning, incipience, onfall, outstart
Antonyms: conclusion, end, ending, finish
Main Entry: origination
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: origin
Synonyms: beginning, birth, commencement, conception, creation, dawn, discovery, genesis, innovation, introduction, launch, source, start, dawning, starting point
Main Entry: blessed event
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: live birth of a child
Synonyms: birth, childbirth, delivery, parturition, birthing, happy event, natality, visit from the stork
Main Entry: beginning
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: start of an event or action
Synonyms: alpha, basis, birth, commencement, creation, dawn, genesis, inauguration, inception, induction, infancy, initiation, installation, introduction, kickoff, onset, opening, origin, origination, outset, preface, prelude, presentation, rise, root, source, spring, square one*, takeoff, threshold, top, blastoff, dawning, day one, opener, point of departure, rudiment, starting point
Antonyms: completion, conclusion, consummation, end, ending, finish, goal, termination
Main Entry: originate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: begin; spring
Synonyms: arise, birth, come, come from, commence, dawn, derive, emanate, emerge, flow, issue, proceed, result, rise, start, stem, be born, come into existence, hail from
Antonyms: end, finish, terminate
Main Entry: start
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beginning
Synonyms: alpha*, birth, bow, commencement, countdown, dawn, derivation, exit, flying start*, foundation, inauguration, inception, initiation, kickoff*, onset, opening, origin, outset, source, spring, square one*, takeoff, dawning, day one, embarkation, first step, jump-off, leaving, running start, setting out, start-off
Antonyms: completion, conclusion, death, end, ending, finish, stop
Main Entry: beginning
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: origin, cause
Synonyms: antecedent, birth, conception, egg, embryo, font, fountain, fountainhead, generation, genesis, germ, heart, principle, resource, root, seed, stem, well, fount
Antonyms: conclusion, outcome, result
Main Entry: blood
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ancestry
Synonyms: birth, consanguinity, descent, extraction, family, kindred, kinship, line, lineage, origin, pedigree, stock, descendants, relations
Main Entry: class
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: societal group, background
Synonyms: ancestry, birth, breed, caliber, caste, circle, clan, clique, club, company, condition, connection, coterie, degree, derivation, descent, estate, extraction, family, genealogy, grade, hierarchy, influence, league, lineage, moiety, nobility, origin, pecking order*, pedigree, pigeonhole*, place, position, prestige, quality, sect, source, sphere, standing, state, station, status, stock, strain, stratum, tier, title, bourgeoisie, cultural level, intelligentsia, social rank, the right stuff
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