Breeding Synonyms

brēdĭng
The process by which an organism produces others of its kind
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. reproduction
  2. procreation
  3. rearing
  4. nurture
  5. multiplication
  6. upbringing
  7. begetting
  8. behavior
  9. proliferation
  10. civility
  11. conduct
  12. culture
  13. descent
  14. propagation
  15. development
  16. bringing-up
  17. education
  18. eugenics
  19. extraction
  20. genealogy
  21. fostering
  22. generation
  23. instruction
  24. line
  25. spawning
  26. manners
  27. fosterage
  28. mating
  29. origin
  30. increase
  31. prolification
  32. beekeeping
  33. cattle-ranching
  34. schooling
  35. stirpiculture
  36. raising
  37. dairy-farming
  38. training
  39. dressage
  40. endogamy
  41. engenderment
  42. gentlemanliness
  43. facts-of-life
  44. ladylikeness
  45. linebreeding
  46. mink-ranching
  47. outbreeding
  48. pig-keeping
  49. sheepherding
  50. stockbreeding
  51. zootechny
Have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. raising
  2. propagating
  3. growing
  4. multiplying
  5. keeping
  6. rearing
  7. developing
  8. cultivating
To be the biological father of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. siring
  2. procreating
  3. getting
  4. fathering
  5. begetting
The result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. education
  2. training
Elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. genteelness
  2. gentility

Words Related to Breeding

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. breed
  2. causing
  3. egg laying
  4. reintroductions
  5. captive-bred
  6. broodstock
  7. forage
  8. beginning
  9. grazing
  10. outcross
  11. breeder

Breeding Sentence Examples

  • Unless you were breeding them, what difference did it make?

  • The breeding of horses has attained a great perfection.

  • The export trade in cattle, sheep and pigs is practically restricted to pedigree animals required for breeding purposes, and though its aggregate value [[Table Xxvi]].-Quantities and Value of Home-bred Live Stock exported from the United Kingdom, 1900-1905.

  • Breeding is unregulated and natural selection prevails.

  • Those who were unwilling to accept evolution, without better grounds than such as are offered by Lamarck, and who therefore preferred to suspend their judgment on the question, found in the principle of selective breeding, pursued in all its applications with marvellous knowledge and skill by Darwin, a valid explanation of the occurrence of varieties and races; and they saw clearly that, if the explanation would apply to species, it would not only solve the problem of their evolution, but that it would account for the facts of teleology, as well as for those of morphology; and for the persistence of some forms of life unchanged through long epochs of time, while others undergo comparatively rapid metamorphosis.

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