English Online Dictionary. What means breeding? What does breeding mean?
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɹiːdɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
Etymology 1
From Middle English breedyng, bredynge (“gestation, incubation, propagation, hatching; engineering, formation, development, growth”), equivalent to breed + -ing.
Noun
breeding (countable and uncountable, plural breedings)
- Propagation of offspring through sexual reproduction.
- The act of insemination by natural or artificial means.
- The act of copulation in animals.
- The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity.
- Nurture; education; formation of manners.
- Descent; pedigree; extraction.
- (gay slang) Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English bredyng, bredynge, from Old English *brēdende, from Proto-Germanic *brōdijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *brōdijaną (“to brood; breed”), equivalent to breed + -ing.
Adjective
breeding (not comparable)
- Of, relating to or used for breeding.
Derived terms
- breeding ground
Verb
breeding
- present participle and gerund of breed
Anagrams
- beringed, bigender