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WordBand 5.5–6.5Core (NGSL)
birth
/bɜːθ/
noun1 of 2
when a baby comes out of the body of its mother
- “No one speaks even their own native language by birth.”Tatoeba
- “Since my birth, life has not been kind to me.”Tatoeba
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verb2 of 2
To produce, give rise to.
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Source: New General Service List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)