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Meaning of "misbirth" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MISBIRTH

misbirth  [ˈmɪsˌbɜːθ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MISBIRTH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Misbirth is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MISBIRTH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of misbirth in the English dictionary

The definition of misbirth in the dictionary is an abortion or miscarriage.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MISBIRTH


afterbirth
ˈɑːftəˌbɜːθ
berth
bɜːθ
birth
bɜːθ
childbirth
ˈtʃaɪldˌbɜːθ
crossbirth
ˈkrɒsˌbɜːθ
dearth
dɜːθ
earth
ɜːθ
firth
fɜːθ
girth
ɡɜːθ
homebirth
ˈhəʊmˌbɜːθ
Kenilworth
ˈkɛnɪlˌwɜːθ
Leavenworth
ˈlɛvənˌwɜːθ
mirth
mɜːθ
pennyworth
ˈpɛnɪˌwɜːθ
Perth
pɜːθ
prebirth
priːˈbɜːθ
rebirth
riːˈbɜːθ
stillbirth
ˈstɪlˌbɜːθ
unearth
ʌnˈɜːθ
worth
wɜːθ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MISBIRTH

misbecoming
misbecomingness
misbegin
misbegot
misbegotten
misbehave
misbehaver
misbehaviour
misbelief
misbelieve
misbeliever
misbeseem
misbestow
misbestowal
misbias
misbind
misborn
misbrand
misbuild
misbutton

WORDS THAT END LIKE MISBIRTH

airth
breech birth
date of birth
give birth
live birth
Moray Firth
multiple birth
natural childbirth
Pentland Firth
Solway Firth
ungirth
virgin birth
yirth

Synonyms and antonyms of misbirth in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «misbirth» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MISBIRTH

Find out the translation of misbirth to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of misbirth from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «misbirth» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

misbirth
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

misbirth
570 millions of speakers

English

misbirth
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

misbirth
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

misbirth
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

misbirth
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

misbirth
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভ্রূণহত্যা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

misbirth
220 millions of speakers

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Kesakitan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

misbirth
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

misbirth
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

misbirth
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Misbirth
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

misbirth
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

misbirth
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दुर्व्यवहार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

misbirth
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

misbirth
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

misbirth
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

misbirth
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

misbirth
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

misbirth
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

aborsie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

misbirth
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

misbirth
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of misbirth

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MISBIRTH»

The term «misbirth» is used very little and occupies the 151.535 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MISBIRTH» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «misbirth» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «misbirth» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about misbirth

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MISBIRTH»

Discover the use of misbirth in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to misbirth and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Joycean Cultures, Culturing Joyces
A misbirth with a trailing navelcord, hushed in ruddy wool" (U 3.36-37). The image of the misbirth wrapped in "ruddy wool" intensifies as we learn of Rudy, whom Bloom associates with a "white lambkin" in the "Circe" chapter (U 15.4967) .
Vincent John Cheng, Kimberly J. Devlin, Margot Norris, 1998
2
Joyce’s Book of Memory: The Mnemotechnic of Ulysses
image of Bloom's son, Rudy, who was a "misbirth" and, as we later learn, was buried in a "little woolly jacket" ([718.1448), "a fair corselet of lamb's wool" ([ 714.269) that Molly knitted for him. Stephen remembers the two midwives later in the day ...
John S. Rickard, 1999
3
Gender and Modern Irish Drama
5. Misbirth. of. a. Nation: Yeats. and. the. Irish. Free. State. The 1930s were no a good decade for Irish drama. In 1928 the National Theatre lost its most commercially successful playwright when Sean O 'Casey's The Silver Tassiewas rejected ...
Susan Cannon Harris, 2002
4
A Companion to James Joyce
A misbirth with a trailing navelcord, hushed in ruddy wool. The cords of all link back, strandentwining cable of all flesh. Hello. Kinch here. Put me on to Edenville . Aleph, alpha: nought, nought, one (U 3 32–40). Stephen, obsessed with the “sin  ...
Richard Brown, 2013
5
The Mutilating God: Authorship and Authority in the ...
... marked by disruption and discontinuity, by pain and loss. The image of the word "foetus" engraved on a school desk in a classroom of his father's alma mater reminds us that Stephen's own education recounts not the birth but the misbirth of ...
Gerald Peters, 1993
6
The Crisis
Sincerely yours, AN ASIATIC GENTLEMAN. ROOSEVELT REETING, Theodore Roosevelt! Forgotten is Brownsville! Forgotten is the misbirth of the Progressive We only remember to-day all Americans mouthing of Party ! that of Liberty and ...
7
The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous
For Paré, most monsters merely demonstrated nature's curious mechanisms, and were neither portents, signs, nor errors. Monsters evoked curiosity and wonder rather than fear or horror. Distinguishing a prodigy from a misbirth was a complex  ...
Asa Simon Mittman, Peter J. Dendle, 2013
8
Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, 1998
HARRJS, SUSAN CANNON: "All That Trouble and Nothing to Show for 1t: Yeats's The Herne's Egg and the Misbirth of a Nation," Eire-1reland, 32:4/33:1-2 ( Winter/Spring/Summer 1997/1998), 29-65. The play's indebtedness to contemporary ...
Richard J. Finneran, 2001
9
'Strandentwining Cable': Joyce, Flaubert, and Intertextuality
A misbirth with a trailing navelcord, hushed in ruddy wool. The cords of all link back, strandentwining cable of all flesh. That is why mystic monks. Will you be as gods?30 Stephen's distaste regarding the biological realities of human birthing is  ...
Scarlett Baron, 2012
10
Dear Companion: The Inner Life of Martha Jefferson
Yet every time she had pause enough to wonder why her course was so late, fear would be choking that some misbirth had occurred again and her life would be all grief again. As it happened, they were coming back from the Gilmers on ...
Kelly Joyce Neff, 1997

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MISBIRTH»

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Mini Mausoleum
#The first time the couple make love after the misbirth is shown from the perspective of the tiny wooden box. At this point, it's safe to say ... «San Diego Reader, Oct 13»

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« EDUCALINGO. Misbirth [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/misbirth>. May 2024 ».
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