Beget

/biˈɡɛt/ · verb

Meaning

(chiefly literary) To produce or bring forth (a child); to be a parent of; to father or sire..

Definitions by Sense

1. (chiefly literary) To produce or bring forth (a child); to be a parent of; to father or sire.
2. To cause; to produce; to bring forth.
3. (obsolete) To get or obtain.
4. (UK dialectal) To happen to; befall.

Example Sentences

The King intends to beget a child within the next five years.

¶ And Adam liued an hundred and thirtie yeeres, and begate a ſonne in his owne likeneſſe, after his image; and called his name Seth.

This ogress too was begotten of the blood of Cain, whose brood had been doomed forever to the icy floods and freezing waters of the earth.

I believe good people beget good people. If you marry the right person, then you will have good children. But everywhere else in life, too, good people beget good people. In your work, when you hire good people, they, in turn, will hire good ...

Wealth begets wealth; poverty begets poverty.

How one’s thoughts will travel! and how quickly our wishes beget them!

In the same way that Old Europe’s coffeehouses begat insurance companies, he says, today’s political careers beget an unhealthy relationship with throat lozenges.

Rugby football was created in the early 1800s at England’s all-boys Rugby School. The sport begat American football, Gaelic football, Australian rules football and Association football (aka soccer).

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• begets
• begetting
• begot
• begat
• begotten

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