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Another word for sire

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sire

n.

procreator, parent, begetter, generator, creator; see also father 1.

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Another word for sire

noun

A male parent:

father. (Informal) dad, daddy, pa, papa, pappy², pop². (Slang) old man. See kin

verb

To be the biological father of:
beget, breed, father, get, procreate. See kin
To cause to come into existence:
beget, breed, create, engender, father, hatch, make, originate, parent, procreate, produce, spawn. Idiom: give birth (or rise) to. See make

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Amongst the domestic animals are the buffalo, the Syrian camel, and a mule camel, bred from a Bactrian sire and Syrian mother.
He was the sire of, among other horses, Blaze (1733) and Snip (1736).
Manganese when mated with Rataplan threw Mandragora, dam of Apology, winner of the Oaks and St Leger, whose sire wasAdventurer, son of Newminster.
"Without doubt, sire," replied Rapp.
This horse, who was never trained, was the sire of Squirt (1732), whose son Marske (1750) begat Eclipse and Young Marske (1762), sire of Shuttle (1793).

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