birth

Noun

• a baby born; an offspring
  • the overall rate of incidence of Down's syndrome is one in every 800 births
    

• the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents

• the process of giving birth

• the event of being born
  • they celebrated the birth of their first child
    

• the time when something begins (especially life)
  • they divorced after the birth of the child
    
  • his election signaled the birth of a new age
    

Verb

• cause to be born
  • My wife had twins yesterday!
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  parentage , parturition , giving birth , birthing , nativity , nascency , nascence , give birth , deliver , bear , have
• Antonyms: 
  death , decease , expiry , dying , demise