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congé [kɔ̃ʒe]1. masculine nounb. ( = avis de départ) notice2. compounds* * *kɔ̃ʒenom masculin1) ( arrêt de travail) leave [U]2) École holiday GB, vacation US3) ( fin de contrat) noticedonner (son) or signifier son congé à quelqu'un — to give somebody notice
•Phrasal Verbs:••* * *kɔ̃ʒe nm1) (= vacances, temps libre) holidayavoir congé — to have a holiday, to have time off
Je serai en congé la semaine prochaine. — I'll be on holiday next week.
2) (= arrêt de travail) time off no pl leave no plen congé — off work, on leave
3) MILITAIRE leave no pl4) (= avis de départ) noticedonner son congé à — to hand in one's notice to, to give in one's notice to
* * *congé nm1 ( arrêt de travail) leave ¢; prendre quatre jours de congé to take four days' leave ou four days off; être en congé to be off; être en congé pour trois jours to be away for three days; se mettre en congé pour trois jours to take three days' leave; se mettre en congé to take some time off; il me reste deux jours de congé à prendre I still have two days' leave due to me; accorder six jours de congé à qn to grant sb six days' leave; être en congé de maladie/maternité to be on sick/maternity leave; congé de longue maladie extended sick leave; se mettre en congé de maladie to go on sick leave; avoir congé le lundi to have Mondays off;2 Scol holiday GB, vacation US; être en congé to be on holiday GB ou vacation US; en France les écoles ont congé le mercredi in France there is no school on Wednesdays;3 Jur ( fin de contrat) notice; donner (son) or signifier son congé à qn to give sb notice; demander son congé to hand in one's notice;4 Fisc clearance from bond.congé de conversion paid leave for re-training; congé individuel de formation personal leave for training; congé parental d'éducation parental child-rearing leave; congé sans solde unpaid leave; congés annuels annual leave; congés payés paid leave; congés scolaires school holidays GB ou vacation US.prendre congé de qn to take leave of sb.[kɔ̃ʒe] nom masculintrois semaines de congé three weeks off, three weeks' leavej'ai congé le lundi I have Mondays off, I'm off on Mondays, Monday is my day offcongé parental (d'éducation)parent's right to take time off without pay (after a birth or an adoption)congé sans solde time off without pay, unpaid leave2. [avis de départ] noticedonner (son) congé à un employé to give notice to ou to dismiss an employee3. [adieu]prendre congé to (take one's) leave, to depart————————en congé locution adverbialea. [soldat] to be on leave -
82 joie
joie [ʒwa]1. feminine noun• quand aurons-nous la joie de vous revoir ? when shall we have the pleasure of seeing you again?• c'est pas la joie ! (inf) it's no fun!2. plural feminine noun• ce sont les joies de la voiture ! that's the joy of car travel!* * *ʒwa1) ( bonheur) joyjoie sans mélange or sans partage — pure joy
quelle joie! — iron wonderful! iron
être ivre de joie — to be drunk with happiness ou delight
2) ( plaisir) pleasurese faire une joie de faire — ( envisager avec plaisir) to look forward to doing; ( faire avec plaisir) to be delighted to do
leurs seules joies — their only pleasures; faux I
••s'en donner à cœur joie — lit to enjoy oneself to the full; fig to have a field day
* * *ʒwa nfavec joie [accepter] — with the greatest pleasure
* * *A nf1 ( bonheur) joy; la joie éclairait son visage his/her face glowed with joy; être au comble de la joie to be overjoyed; joie sans mélange or sans partage pure joy; cette enfant fait la joie de ses parents the child is her parents' pride and joy; la joie de faire the joy ou pleasure of doing; la joie de retrouver sa maison the joy ou pleasure of getting back home; des cris de joie cries of joy; il y a eu des explosions de joie dans toute la ville the whole town erupted with joy; c'est une joie de le regarder he's a joy to look at; quelle joie! wonderful!; être ivre de joie to be drunk with happiness ou delight; sauter/pleurer de joie to jump/cry for joy; avoir de la joie au cœur to have a cheerful disposition; un enfant plein de joie a happy ou sunny child; beaucoup de joie great happiness; faire la joie de qn to gladden ou delight sb, to make sb happy; être en joie to be delighted; mettre qn en joie to delight sb; pour or à la plus grande joie de qn to sb's great delight; être tout à la joie de faire to be carried away by the thrill of doing; c'est la joie dans les rues happiness reigns in the streets; ‘comment ça va au travail?’-‘c'est pas la joie○!’ ‘how are things at work?’-‘not great○!’;2 ( plaisir) pleasure; cela a été une joie de vous recevoir it has been a pleasure to have ou having you; exprimer/dire sa joie de faire to express one's pleasure at doing; avoir la joie de faire to have the pleasure of doing; accepter qch avec joie to accept sth with pleasure; se faire une joie de faire ( envisager avec plaisir) to look forward to doing; ( faire avec plaisir) to be delighted to do; ⇒ faux;3 ( source de plaisir) pleasure, joy; leurs seules joies their only pleasures.B joies nfpl ( aspects agréables) (du monde, des sens) pleasures; (de l'amour, d'une activité) pleasures, joys; goûter aux joies de l'amour to taste the joys of love; s'adonner/se livrer aux joies de qch to devote oneself to/to give oneself over to the joys of sth.joie de vivre joie de vivre, exuberance.[ʒwa] nom fémininpousser un cri de joie to shout ou to whoop for joypour la plus grande joie de ses parents, elle a obtenu la bourse much to the delight of her parents ou to her parent's great delight, she won the scholarshipc'est pas la joie à la maison (familier) life at home isn't exactly a laugh-a-minute ou a bundle of laughs2. [plaisir] pleasurenous avons la joie de vous annoncer la naissance de Charles we are happy to announce the birth of Charlesje suis tout à la joie de revoir mes amis (soutenu) I'm overjoyed at the idea of ou I'm greatly looking forward to seeing my friends againdes films qui ont fait la joie de millions d'enfants films which have given pleasure to ou delighted millions of childrenla petite Émilie fait la joie de sa mère little Emily is the apple of her mother's eye ou is her mother's pride and joyil se faisait une telle joie de venir à ton mariage he was so delighted at the idea of ou so looking forward to coming to your weddingje me ferai une joie de lui dire ses quatre vérités (humoristique) I shall be only too pleased to tell him a few home truths————————joies nom féminin pluriel[plaisirs] joysles joies de la vie/retraite the joys of life/retirement -
83 mother
1. nounMutter, dielike mother used to make — [Essen] wie bei Muttern (ugs.)
Mother Superior — Äbtissin, die
2. transitive verbnecessity is the mother of invention — (prov.) Not macht erfinderisch (Spr.)
(over-protect) bemuttern* * *1. noun1) (a female parent, especially human: John's mother lives in Manchester; ( also adjective) The mother bird feeds her young.) die Mutter; Mutter-...2. verb(to care for as a mother does; to protect (sometimes too much): His wife tries to mother him.) bemuttern- academic.ru/48143/motherhood">motherhood- motherless
- motherly
- motherliness
- mother-country
- motherland
- mother-in-law
- mother-of-pearl
- mother-tongue* * *Moth·er[ˈmʌðəʳ, AM -ɚ]* * *['mʌðə(r)]1. nMother of God — Muttergottes f, Mutter f Gottes;
she's a mother of three — sie hat drei Kinder
she's her mother's daughter —
the mother of all battles/confrontations/traffic jams — die Mutter aller Kriege/Auseinandersetzungen/Staus
a real mother of a day — ein Scheißtag m (inf)
2. attrMutter-mother hen — Glucke f
3. vt(= care for) young auf- or großziehen; (= give birth to) zur Welt bringen; (= cosset) bemuttern* * *mother1 [ˈmʌðə(r)]A s1. Mutter f (auch fig):a mother of four eine Mutter von vier Kindern;mother’s boy Muttersöhnchen n;Mother’s Day Muttertag m;Mother Earth die Mutter Erde;Mother Nature die Mutter Natur;mother’s ruin Br sl Gin m;Mother Russia Mütterchen n Russland;old Mother XY umg die alte Frau XYB adj Mutter…C v/t1. meist fig gebären, hervorbringen2. bemuttern3. die Mutterschaft (gen) anerkennen4. figa) die Urheberschaft (gen) anerkennenmother a novel on sb jemandem einen Roman zuschreibenmother2 [ˈmʌðə(r)]A s Essigmutter fB v/i Essigmutter ansetzen* * *1. nounMutter, dieshe is a or the mother of six [children] — sie ist Mutter von sechs Kindern
like mother used to make — [Essen] wie bei Muttern (ugs.)
Mother Superior — Äbtissin, die
2. transitive verbnecessity is the mother of invention — (prov.) Not macht erfinderisch (Spr.)
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86 porijeklo
* * *• extraction• breeding• derivation• descent• vintage• spring• sourcing• source• stock• provenience• provenance• lineage• genesis• birth• ancestry• parentage• origins• parent• origin• pedigree• mint• nascency -
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spring ; source перен.* * ** * *spring; source перен.* * *beginningbirthbreederchannelderivationdescentfountfountainfountain-headgrassrootsheadquartersheadspringmainspringminemintoriginparentpaternityprincipleprogenitorradixreservoirresourcerootseedsourcespring -
88 poreklo
• ancesstry; ancestory; ancestry; beginning; birth; cradle; derivation; descent; extraction; fountain; genealogy; genesis; house; lineage; mint; orgin; origin; parent; parentage; paternity; pedigree; provenance; provenience; root; source; sourceing; sourcing; spring; springs; stock -
89 أصل
1́ n. genealogy, destination, descent, pedigree, parentage, race, ancestry, derivation, strain, germ, paternity, stock, origin, birth, source, principle, seed, root, taproot, parent, extraction, provenance, provenience, Genesis, rise2́ v. ingrain, behold -
90 aged
['eɪʤɪd] 1. прил.1) пожилой, старый, престарелыйThat was Starboard talking to his Aged Parent. — Это Старборд разговаривал со своим престарелым родителем.
Any horse or mare above six years is "aged". — Любая лошадь или мерин старше шести лет, считаются пожилыми.
Syn:2) ['eɪʤd]A woman aged 50 has given birth to twins. — Женщина в возрасте 50 лет родила двойню.
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92 cieo
cĭĕo, cīvi, cĭtum, 2 (from the primitive form cĭo, cīre, prevailing in the compounds accio, excio, etc. (cf. Prisc. pp. 865, 905, and 908 P.), are also found: pres. cio, Mart. 4, 90, 4:I.cit,
Verg. Cul. 201; Col. 6, 5, 1 Schneid.:cimus,
Lucr. 1, 213; 5, 211:ciunt,
Lact. Ep. 4 dub.:ciant,
App. Flor. 2, n. 17, p. 358; Mart. Cap. 1, § 91: ciuntur, id. de Mundo, 22, p. 67), v. a. [kindr. with kiô, to go; and by the addition of the causative signif. like kineô, causative from kiô; v. 1. ci.].Lit., to put in motion; hence, to move, stir, shake (syn.: moveo, commoveo, concito, excito al.;B.class. in prose and poetry): calcem,
to make a move in the game of chess, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 86:natura omnia ciens et agitans,
Cic. N. D. 3, 11, 27: inanimum est omne, quod pulsu agitatur externo;quod autem est animal, id motu cietur interiore et suo,
id. Tusc. 1, 23, 54 (for which, in the same chapter, several times movere; cf. also id. N. D. 2, 9, 23):remos,
Stat. Th. 6, 801:imo Nereus ciet aequora fundo,
stirs up, Verg. A. 2, 419:puppes sinistrorsum citae,
Hor. Epod. 9, 20.—In judic. lang. t. t.:C.ciere erctum (lit. to put in motion, i. e.),
to divide the inheritance, Cic. de Or. 1, 56, 237; cf. erctum.—Trop., to put in motion, to rouse up, disturb: natura maris per se immobilis est, et venti et aurae cient, Liv. 28, 27, 11:II.saltum canibus ciere,
Lucr. 5, 1250: fontes et stagna, Cic. poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 9, 15:tonitru caelum omne ciebo,
Verg. A. 4, 122:loca sonitu cientur,
Lucr. 4, 608; cf.:reboat raucum regio cita barbara bombum,
id. 4, 544 Lachm. N. cr. —With reference to the terminus ad quem, to move, excite, or call to ( poet. or in Aug. and post-Aug. prose for the common accire):B.ad sese aliquem,
Cat. 68, 88:ad arma,
Liv. 5, 47, 4; Sil. 7, 43:in pugnam,
id. 4, 272:armatos ad pugnam,
Vell. 2, 6, 6:aere ciere viros,
Verg. A. 6, 165:quos e proximis coloniis ejus rei fama civerat,
Tac. A. 15, 33:aliquem in aliquem,
id. H. 1, 84, 5:ab ultimis subsidiis cietur miles (sc. in primam aciem),
Liv. 9, 39, 8:ille cieri Narcissum postulat,
Tac. A. 11, 30.—To call upon for help, to invoke; of invoking superior beings:C.nocturnos manes,
Verg. A. 4, 490:luctificam Alecto dirarum ab sede sororum,
id. ib. 7, 325:vipereasque ciet Stygiā de valle sorores (i. e. Furias),
Ov. M. 6, 662:numina nota ciens,
Val. Fl. 4, 549:foedera et deos,
Liv. 22, 14, 7.—In gen., to call upon any one by name, to mention by name:2. III.erum,
Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 11:comites magnā voce,
Lucr. 4, 578:animamque sepulcro Condimus et magnā supremum voce ciemus,
Verg. A. 3, 68:lamentatione flebili majores suos ciens ipsumque Pompeium,
Tac. A. 3, 23:singulos nomine,
id. ib. 2, 81; so Suet. Ner. 46: triumphum nomine ciere, i. e. to call Io triumphe! Liv. 45, 38, 12.—Hence,To put any course of action in progress or any passion in motion, i. e. to excite, stimulate, rouse, to produce, effect, cause, occasion, begin (very freq., esp. in poetry):B.solis uti varios cursus lunaeque meatus Noscere possemus quae vis et causa cierent,
Lucr. 5, 773:motus,
id. 3, 379; Cic. Tusc. 1, 10, 20:varias voces,
Lucr. 5, 1059:lamenta virum commoliri atque ciere,
id. 6, 242 Lachm. N. cr.:tinnitus aere,
Cat. 64, 262; Verg. G. 4, 64 (cie tinnitus):singultus ore,
Cat. 64, 131:gemitus,
Verg. G. 3, 517:fletus,
id. A. 3, 344:lacrimas,
id. ib. 6, 468:mugitus,
id. ib. 12, 103:murmur,
id. G. 1, 110; Liv. 9, 7, 3:bellum,
id. 5, 37, 2; Vell. 2, 54; Tac. H. 3, 41 fin.; Verg. A. 1, 541:belli simulacra,
id. ib. 5, 674:seditiones,
Liv. 4, 52, 2:tumultum,
id. 28, 17, 16; 41, 24, 18:vires intimas molemque belli,
Tac. A. 15, 2 fin.; cf. id. H. 3, 1:pugnam,
Liv. 1, 12, 2; 2, 47, 1; 9, 22, 7; Tac. A. 3, 41:proelium,
Liv. 2, 19, 10; 4, 33, 3; 7, 33, 12;10, 28, 8: Martem,
Verg. A. 9, 766:acies, stragem,
id. ib. 6, 829; cf. Liv. 22, 39, 7:rixam,
Vell. 1, 2 al. —In medic.:B.alvum,
to cause evacuation, Plin. 20, 9, 38, § 96:urinam,
id. 27, 7, 28, § 48:menses,
to cause menstruation, id. 26, 15, 90, § 151 sq. al.—Hence, cĭtus, a, um, P. a., lit. put in motion; hence, quick, swift, rapid (opp. tardus, Cic. de Or. 3, 57, 216; Sall. C. 15, 5; class.; esp. freq. in poetry;rare in Cic.): ad scribendum citus,
Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 86:quod jubeat citis quadrigis citius properet persequi,
id. Aul. 4, 1, 14; Verg. A. 8, 642:bigae,
Cat. 55, 26:puppis,
id. 64, 6; Tib. 4, 1, 69:classis,
Hor. C. 1, 37, 24:navis,
Ov. M. 15, 732; Tac. A. 2, 6:axis,
Ov. M. 2, 75:fugae,
id. ib. 1, 543:plantae,
id. ib. 10, 591:incessus,
Sall. C. 15, 5:via,
Liv. 33, 48, 1:venator,
Hor. C. 1, 37, 18:cum militibus,
Tac. A. 11, 1:legionibus,
id. ib. 14, 26:agmine,
id. ib. 1, 63;4, 25: cohortes,
id. ib. 12, 31:mors,
Hor. C. 2, 16, 29; id. S. 1, 1, 8:pes, i. e. iambus,
id. A. P. 252.— Comp.: nullam ego rem citiorem apud homines esse quam famam reor, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Fest. p. 61 Müll.; Val. Max. 3, 8, ext. 1.— Sup., Quint. 6, 4, 14 dub.; v. Spald. and Zumpt in h. l.—In the poets very freq. (also a few times in Tac.) instead of the adv. cito:1.citi ad aedis venimus Circae, Liv. And. ap. Fest. s. v. topper, p. 352, 6 Müll.: equites parent citi,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 88; id. Stich. 2, 2, 70; Lucr. 1, 386:somnus fugiens citus abiit,
Cat. 63, 42: solvite vela citi, Verg, A. 4, 574; cf. id. ib. 9, 37; 12, 425; Hor. S. 1, 10, 92; cf. id. C. 3, 7, 27:ite citi,
Ov. M. 3, 562; Tac. H. 2, 40:si citi advenissent,
id. A. 12, 12.—Hence,cĭto, adv.a.Quickly, speedily, soon (freq. in prose and poetry of all periods):b.quam tarda es! non vis citius progredi?
Phaedr. 3, 6, 2; [p. 331] Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 44:eloquere,
id. Cist. 4, 2, 83:abi cito et suspende te,
Ter. And. 1, 5, 20; 3, 1, 16:labascit victus uno verbo: quam cito!
id. Eun. 1, 2, 98:quod eum negasti, qui non cito quid didicisset, umquam omnino posse perdiscere,
Cic. de Or. 3, 36, 146; cf. Hor. A. P. 335; Quint. 12, 8, 3; 11, 2, 2; 10, 6, 2:non multum praestant sed cito,
id. 1, 3, 4 et saep.: sat cito si sat bene, a moral saying of Cato in Hier. Ep. 66, n. 9:cito rumpes arcum, semper si tensum habueris,
Phaedr. 3, 14, 10:ad paenitendum properat cito qui judicat, Publ. Syr. Sent. 6: scribere,
Quint. 10, 3, 10:nimis cito diligere,
Cic. Lael. 21, 78:cito absolvere, tarde condemnare,
id. Verr. 2, 1, 9, § 26.— Comp.:citius,
Plaut. Aul. 4, 1, 14; Pers. 3, 3, 31; Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 23; Lucr. 1, 557; 2, 34; Cic. Sen. 2, 4:Noto citius, Verg.A.5, 242 et saep.: dicto,
Hor. S. 2, 2, 80; Verg. A. 1, 142:supremā die, i. e. ante supremam diem,
Hor. C. 1, 13, 20:serius aut citius sedem properamus ad unam (for which serius ocius,
id. ib. 2, 3, 26), sooner or later, Ov. M. 10, 33.— Sup.:citissime,
Caes. B. G. 4, 33 fin. al.—With the negative, sometimes equivalent to non facile, not easily (cf. the Gr. tacha):c. * 2.haud cito,
Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 89:neque verbis aptiorem cito alium dixerim, neque sententiis crebriorem,
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1. n порода2. n потомство, поколение3. n сорт, род, категория4. n амер. разг. пренебр. полукровка5. v размножаться, плодиться; давать приплод6. v вынашивать; высиживать; выводить7. v диал. быть беременной8. v разводить9. v воспитывать, обучать10. v порождать, вызыватьСинонимический ряд:1. line (noun) brood; extraction; family; line; lineage; pedigree; progeny; race; stock2. type (noun) cast; caste; character; class; cut; denomination; description; feather; ilk; kidney; kind; lot; manner; mold; mould; nature; order; persuasion; rank; sort; species; stamp; strain; stripe; type; variety; way3. cause (verb) cause; generate; get up; induce; muster up; occasion; provoke; stir; touch off; work up4. foster (verb) bring up; discipline; educate; foster; instruct; nurture; promote; rear; school5. procreate (verb) arise; beget; create; cultivate; develop; flourish; get; grow; multiply; originate; procreate; progenerate; proliferate; propagate; raise; reproduce; rise; sire; spawn6. produce (verb) bear; bring forth; conceive; engender; father; give birth to; hatch; parent; produce -
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1. v создавать, творить2. v ирон. творить, заниматься творчеством3. v вызывать, произвести4. v офиц. возводить в звание; присваивать титул5. v разг. волноваться, суетиться6. v разг. поднимать шум, устраивать бучуСинонимический ряд:1. conceive (verb) conceive; concoct; devise; formulate2. found (verb) constitute; establish; found; institute; organise; organize; set up; start3. make (verb) beget; build; construct; effect; engender; erect; father; forge; form; generate; hatch; make; parent; procreate; produce; sire; spawn4. originate (verb) author; bring into being; cause; develop; give birth to; invent; occasion; originate5. produce (verb) compose; produce; writeАнтонимический ряд: -
95 originate
1. v давать начало, порождать; создавать2. v брать начало, происходить, возникатьСинонимический ряд:1. initiate (verb) author; compose; conceive; constitute; create; discover; engender; establish; father; found; generate; hatch; inaugurate; initiate; institute; introduce; invent; launch; make; organise; parent; procreate; produce; set up; sire; spawn; usher in2. spring (verb) appear; arise; begin; birth; come; come from; commence; dawn; derive; derive from; emanate; emerge; flow; hail; hail from; head; issue; proceed; rise; spring; start; stem; upspringАнтонимический ряд:copy; end; terminate -
96 spawn
1. n икра2. n икринка3. n мальки4. n многочисленное потомство5. n презр. отродье6. n порождение, следствие7. n источник, рассадник8. n бот. мицелий, грибница9. v метать икру10. v плодиться, размножаться11. v зарождаться12. v плодить, порождать, создавать13. v кишеть, быть переполненным; являться средоточием или рассадником14. v извлекать икруСинонимический ряд:1. issue (noun) issue; offspring; progeny; seed2. cause (verb) cause; engender; hatch; induce; provoke; stir; touch off3. generate (verb) bear; breed; bring forth; create; father; generate; give birth to; issue; make; multiply; originate; parent; procreate; produce; proliferate; propagate; reproduce; sire -
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1) (a person who belongs to the same family as oneself either by birth or because of marriage: uncles, aunts, cousins and other relations.) parent, parente2) (a relationship (between facts, events etc).) relation3) ((in plural) contact and communications between people, countries etc: to establish friendly relations.) relation(s) -
98 δυστοκεύς
Greek-English dictionary (Αγγλικά Ελληνικά-λεξικό) > δυστοκεύς
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99 τίκτω
A Homeric dictionary (Greek-English) (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ομηρικό λεξικό) > τίκτω
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100 BEGET
nosta- (glossed "give birth" in earlier sources), onta- (pa.t. ónë or ontanë) (create); BEGETTER \#nostar (see note below), also ontar with gender-specific forms ontaro (m.), ontarë or ontari (f.) (parent). (In LotR, the form nostari "begetters, parents" occurs; sg \#nostar. Nostari was changed from ontari in Tolkien's first draft [see SD:73], so he may have scrapped ontaro, ontarë in favour of \#nostar [or m. *nostaro, f. *nostarë???] Did he also reject the verb onta- in favour of nosta-?) –SD:73, VT44:7, ONO, LotR:1017 cf. Letters:308
См. также в других словарях:
birth parent — noun 1. A natural parent (as contrasted with an adoptive parent) 2. A birth mother or her partner (as contrasted with a genetic parent) • • • Main Entry: ↑birth * * * noun, pl ⋯ ents [count] : the natural father or mother of a child who has been… … Useful english dictionary
birth parent — birth .parent n a child s natural mother or father, rather than someone who has become the child s legal mother or father through ↑adoption … Dictionary of contemporary English
birth parent — birth ,parent noun count one of the parents someone had when they were born, rather than one of the parents who ADOPTED them … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
birth parent — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms birth parent : singular birth parent plural birth parents one of the parents someone had when they were born, rather than one of the parents who adopted them … English dictionary
birth parent — birth′ par ent n. dvl med a parent who has conceived or sired rather than adopted a child and whose genes are therefore transmitted to the child Also called biological parent • Etymology: 1980–85 … From formal English to slang
birth parent. — See biological parent. Also, birthparent. * * * … Universalium
birth parent — noun a biological as opposed to an adoptive parent … English new terms dictionary
birth parent. — See biological parent. Also, birthparent … Useful english dictionary
ˈbirth ˌparent — noun [C] one of the parents that someone had when they were born, rather than one of the parents who ADOPTED them … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
parent — par|ent W1S1 [ˈpeərənt US ˈper ] n [Date: 1400 1500; : Old French; Origin: Latin, present participle of parere to give birth to ] 1.) the father or mother of a person or animal ▪ Children under fourteen should be accompanied by a parent. ▪ The… … Dictionary of contemporary English
birth — 1. noun /bɜː(ɹ)θ/ a) The process of childbearing. He was of noble birth, but fortune had not favored him. b) An instance of childbirth. See Also: accident of birth, bear, birth control … Wiktionary