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| Main Entry: | beget |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create, bear |
| Synonyms: | afford, breed, bring, bring about, cause, effect, engender, father, generate, get, multiply, occasion, procreate, produce, propagate, reproduce, sire, give rise to, progenerate, result in |
| Main Entry: | create |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | develop in mind or physically |
| Synonyms: | actualize, author, beget, bring to pass, build, coin, compose, conceive, concoct, constitute, construct, contrive, design, devise, discover, dream up, effect, erect, establish, fabricate, fashion, father, forge, form, formulate, found, generate, hatch, imagine, initiate, institute, invent, invest, make, occasion, organize, originate, parent, perform, plan, procreate, produce, rear, set up, shape, sire, spawn, start, bring into being, bring into existence, cause to be, give birth to, give life to |
| Antonyms: | destroy, ruin |
| Main Entry: | creator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inventor; God |
| Synonyms: | architect, author, brain, deity, designer, founder, generator, maker, originator, prime mover, sire, begetter, framer, initiator, producer |
| Antonyms: | destroyer, destructor |
| Main Entry: | forebearer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | family predecessor |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, antecedent, author, forerunner, founder, matriarch, originator, parent, patriarch, precursor, progenitor, relative, sire, ascendant, begetter, materfamilias, paterfamilias, primogenitor, procreator |
| Main Entry: | hatch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create, plan |
| Synonyms: | bear, brainstorm*, breed, brood, cause, come up with, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up*, design, devise, dream up*, engender, formulate, generate, get up, incubate, induce, invent, make, make up, occasion, originate, parent, plot, prepare, procreate, produce, project, provoke, scheme, set, sire, spawn, whip up*, work up*, bring forth, give birth, lay eggs, spitball, think up*, throw together, trump up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | procreate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reproduce |
| Synonyms: | beget, breed, conceive, create, engender, father, generate, get, hatch, impregnate, make, mother, multiply, originate, parent, produce, proliferate, propagate, sire, spawn, give birth to, progenerate |
| Antonyms: | kill |
| Main Entry: | spawn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce |
| Synonyms: | create, father, generate, hatch, issue, make, mother, originate, parent, procreate, reproduce, sire, bring forth, give rise to |
| Antonyms: | destroy |
| Main Entry: | patriarch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | male head |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, architect, author, chief, creator, elder, father, founder, generator, grandfather, head, inventor, maker, master, old man, originator, ruler, senior, sire, gaffer, graybeard, paterfamilias |
| Antonyms: | matriarch |
| Main Entry: | father |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | male person who begets children |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, dad, forebearer, origin, papa, parent, pop*, predecessor, progenitor, sire, source, begetter, daddy, pa, padre, procreator |
| Antonyms: | mother |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | propagate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | breed, reproduce |
| Synonyms: | bear, beget, engender, father, fertilize, generate, grow, impregnate, increase, inseminate, mother, multiply, originate, procreate, produce, proliferate, raise, sire, fecundate, make pregnant |
| Antonyms: | destroy, kill |
| Main Entry: | reproduce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make something new; give birth |
| Synonyms: | bear, beget, breed, engender, father, generate, hatch, impregnate, mother, multiply, procreate, proliferate, propagate, sire, spawn, fecundate, produce young, progenerate, repopulate |
| Antonyms: | abort, kill |
| Main Entry: | highness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | term of respect, usually to royalty |
| Synonyms: | grace, honor, majesty, reverence, royalty, sire, worship, excellency, ladyship, lordship |
| Main Entry: | father/mother |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | founder, inventor |
| Synonyms: | administrator, architect, author, builder, creator, dean, elder, generator, leader, maker, matriarch, motor*, organizer, originator, patriarch, patron, prime mover*, promoter, sire, sponsor, supporter, encourager, initiator, introducer, mover, promulgator, publisher |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | majesty/Majesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun3 |
| Definition: | a form of address |
| Synonyms: | Eminence, Emperor, Highness, King, Lord, Prince, Queen, Sire, Royal Highness |
| Main Entry: | get |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce offspring |
| Synonyms: | beget, breed, generate, procreate, produce, propagate, sire |
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