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Definition: BRED |
BRED1. Imp. & p. p. of Breed. Imperative & past participle1. Of Breed |
Date "BRED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Intemperance | Paphian, Epicurean, Sybaritical; bred in the lap of luxury, nursed in the lap of luxury; indulged, pampered; full-fed, high-fed. |
Intrinsicality | Adjective: derived from within, subjective; intrinsic, intrinsical; fundamental, normal; implanted, inherent, essential, natural; innate, inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought; coeval with birth, genetous, haematobious, syngenic; radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary, inherited, immanent; congenital, congenite; connate, running in the blood; ingenerate, ingenite; indigenous; in the grain; Noun: bred in the bone, instinctive; inward, internal; to the manner born; virtual. |
Vulgarity | Unkempt. uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth; plebeian; incondite; heavy, rude, awkward; homely, homespun, home bred; provincial, countrified, rustic; boorish, clownish; savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish; barbarous, barbaric; Gothic, |
Dowdy; slovenly; (dirty); ungenteel, shabby genteel; low, common, hoi polloi; (plebeian); uncourtly; uncivil; (discourteous); ill bred, ill mannered; underbred; ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike; unladylike, unfeminine; wild, wild as an unbacked colt. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It is an army bred for a single purpose - to destroy the world of men. They will be here by nightfall (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; writing credit: Roald Dahl) There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word by thee, old Capulet, and you, Montague if ever you disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace (Romeo + Juliet; writing credit: Craig Pearce) I bred you (Zardoz; writing credit: John Boorman) | |
Lyrics | My home's in Alabama, Southern born and Southern bred ("My Home's in Alabama"; performing artist: Alabama) Southern born and Southern bred ("My Home's in Alabama"; performing artist: Alabama) So well bred (Jealousy; performing artist: Natalie Merchant) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bred in Old Kentucky (1926) What's Bred... Comes Out in the Flesh (1916) Bred in the Bone (1915) Born and Bred (2002) Bred vdvoyom (1995) | |
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![]() | The New Zealanders maintained a dog sled team at the time of this photo. Dogs came from a Greenland lineage now bred at Scott Base. Dogs are no longer permitted in Antarctica. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. | ![]() | One of the sows bred and raised on Tom Reed farm. They have about 300 hogs, all raised there. Mr. Reed said they had not bought any hogs since his father first came to this place about fifty years ago. He says, "I like hogs. I'm more a hog farmer than a c. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Daniel Defoe | A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behavior, is a creature without comparison. |
Henri Frederic Amiel | Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. |
Sir Walter Raleigh | Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred. |
William Congreve | 'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | For there are no examples so frequent in history, both sacred and profane, as those of men withdrawing themselves, and their obedience, from the jurisdiction they were born under, and the family or community they were bred up in, and setting up new governments in other places; from whence sprang all that number of petty commonwealths in the beginning of ages, and which always multiplied, as long as there was room enough, till the stronger, or more fortunate, swallowed the weaker; and those great ones again breaking to pieces, dissolved into lesser dominions. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | At Hartfield, you have had very good specimens of well educated, well bred men. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | I was bred in this place |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | His mind bred vermin |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | The urging of that word judgment hath bred a kind of remorse in me. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Huddled under sheds, lying in wet hay, the hunger and the fear bred anger |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | To remedy which there was a sort of people bred up among us, in the profession or pretense of curing the sick |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In other words, scientists bred mice in which the cell death program was genetically suppressed. (references) | |
Another promising area of research using the body's natural pain-killing abilities is the transplantation of chromaffin cells into the spinal cords of animals bred experimentally to develop arthritis. (references) | ||
Laboratory animals, such as mice, are being bred in the hope of duplicating the clinical features of HD and can soon be expected to help scientists learn more about the symptoms and progression of the disease. (references) | ||
Economic History | Djibouti | However, it is the Issas who presently dominate the government, civil service, and the ruling party, a situation that has bred resentment and political competition between the Somali Issas and the Afars. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | We shall be the more American if we but remain true to the principles in which we have been bred. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "BRED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 64.51% of the time. "BRED" is used about 509 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 64.51% | 329 | 15,846 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 29.41% | 150 | 25,701 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.9% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.18% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 509 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "BRED": born and bred ♦ bred animals ♦ Bred out ♦ Bred to arms ♦ home bred ♦ ill bred ♦ well bred. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "BRED": american-bred, captive-bred, in-bred, part-bred, scottish-bred, tank-bred, town-bred, well-bred. | |
Containing "BRED": well-bred woman. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "BRED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | dërrasë (batten, board, plank, planking, shingle). (various references) | |
Arabic | مربي (breeder, raiser), تربية الماشية, ربى (breed, bring up, cradle, educate, foster, invest, keep, nourish, nurse, nurture, raise, rear, school, sprout, tutor). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | породен (caused, engendered). (various references) | |
Chinese | 养殖 (Breed, Breeding). (various references) | |
Czech | chovaný. (various references) | |
Danish | Undergruppe vedroerende fri samhandel med avlskvaeg af ren race inden for Faellesskabet (Subgroup on Free Trade in Pure-bred Breeding Animals within the Community), renavlet (pure bred, straight bred), racerent avlssvin (pure-bred breeding pig), racerent avlsdyr (pure bred breeding animal), opdraettet vildt (game reared in captivity, game that has been bred), opdrættede dyr (bred animals). (various references) | |
Dutch | wild uit een fokkerij (game reared in captivity, game that has been bred), Subgroep Vrij handelsverkeer binnen de Gemeenschap in fokvee van zuiver ras (Subgroup on Free Trade in Pure-bred Breeding Animals within the Community), raszuiver fokvarken (pure-bred breeding pig), rasecht (pure bred, straight bred), kruisingskip (cross bred fowl, hybrid), hybride (cross bred fowl, hybrid), gefokte dieren (bred animals), fokdier van zuiver ras (pure bred breeding animal). (various references) | |
Finnish | siitä (from it), sekarotuinen (cross-bred, of mixed blood, of mixed breed), puhdasrotuinen jalostussika (pure-bred breeding pig), puhdasrotuinen (pure-blooded, thoroughbred), paljasjalkainen (barefoot, born and bred), hyvinkasvatettu (well brought up, well-bred). (various references) | |
French | élevé. (various references) | |
German | züchten (breed, grow). (various references) | |
Greek | πρλθ. του breed. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מחונך (educated, gentleman, well bred), לא מחונך (ill bred, uneducated), לא מנומס (discourteous, ill bred, impolite, rude, uncivil). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tenyésztett, tenyészt (breed, to breed, to propagate, to raise, to rear), okoz (beget, bring about, bring forth, cause, gave, give rise to, given, inflict, to breed, to bring forth, to effect, to engender, to generate, to give, to inchoate, to induce, to inflict, to motivate, to occasion, to produce, to provoke), nevel (to discipline), nemz (to gender), kiképez (drill, to breed, to drill, to front, to hew out, to nuzzle, to train, to train sy for sg, train), költ (to brood, to expend, to versify). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kurang ajar (bold, brash, brazen, disrespectful, ill-bred). (various references) | |
Italian | beneducato (well bred), suino riproduttore di razza pura (pure-bred breeding pig), Sottogruppo " Libertà di scambi, all'interno della Comunità, di animali riproduttori di razza pura " (Subgroup on Free Trade in Pure-bred Breeding Animals within the Community), pollo d'incrocio (cross bred fowl, hybrid), malnato (ill bred, miscreated), maleducato (boor, boorish, bounder, cad, caddish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, mannerless, rude, underbred), animali da allevamento (bred animals), animale selvatico proveniente da allevamento (game reared in captivity, game that has been bred), animale riproduttore di razza pura (pure bred breeding animal). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 肉用種 (animal bred for its meat), 田舎育ち (country bred). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | にくようしゅ (animal bred for its meat), いなかそだち (country bred). (various references) | |
Korean | 사육하는. (various references) | |
Manx | troggit (blistered, built, contracted, elevated, lifted, lofted, raised, reared, trained), sheelrit. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | edbray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | suíno reprodutor de raça pura (pure-bred breeding pig), frango híbrido (cross bred fowl, hybrid), fino (fine, thin, delicate, slender, subtle), criado em raça pura (pure bred, straight bred), criado em linha pura (pure bred, straight bred), caça de criação (game reared in captivity, game that has been bred), animal reprodutor de raça pura (pure bred breeding animal), animais de criação especial (bred animals). (various references) | |
Romanian | trecut şi participiu trecut de la breed. (various references) | |
Russian | выводить (deduce, extricate), доска (blackboard, board, chalkboard, punchboard, trencher), дощечка (nameplate, planch). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | proš. vreme i particip od breed. (various references) | |
Spanish | pret y pp de breed. (various references) | |
Swedish | uppfött. (various references) | |
Turkish | terbiyesiz (bad, blackguard, blackguardly, broad, caddish, churlish, coarse, coarse grained, dirty, graceless, ill bred, ill mannered, immodest, immoral, impertinent, impolite, improper, impudent, indelicate, inelegant, insolent, mannerless, naughty, ribald, risky, risque, rude, scabrous, shameless, uncultured, underbred, undressed, unmannerly, unpolished), soylu (aristocrat, aristocratic, aristocratical, blue blood, born in the purple, genteel, gently born, grand, high, noble, noble blood, of gentle birth, of good family, patrician, pedigreed, princely, silk stocking, thoroughbred, titled, truebred, u, well born, well bred), melez (cross, crossbred, half breed, half caste, halfblood, halfblooded, half-bred, hybrid, mestizo, mixed, mongrel, mulatto), kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), kötü huylu (bad tempered, cankered, ill bred, ill disposed, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-affected, ill-humored, ill-humoured, of bad character, perverse, wicked), görgüsüz (graceless, ill bred, mannerless, provincial, uncouth, underbred, unmannerly), görgülü (cultivated, cultured, experienced, of good manners, well bred), doğma büyüme (born and bred, grassroots, native born), cins (blooded, breed, cast, class, diversity, gender, genus, kind, pedigree, pedigreed, persuasion, pure blooded, pureblooded, purebred, quality, race, sex, species, stripe, type, variety, well bred), asil (aristocratic, aristocratical, blue blood, born in the purple, bottom, dignified, foundation, gently born, grand, ground, lineage, lordly, noble, of gentle birth, of noble birth, origin, royal, sublime, superior, well bred). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | дошка (board, planch, table). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nòi (breed, high-bred, pedigreed, true-bred), giống dòng dõi (breed). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 45, Verse 23 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai tw patri autou apesteilen kata ta auta kai deka onouV airontaV apo pantwn twn agaqwn aiguptou kai deka hmionouV airousaV artouV tw patri autou eiV odon |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Tantundem pecuniae et vestium mittens patri suo addens eis asinos decem qui subveherent ex omnibus divitiis Aegypti et totidem asinas triticum in itinere panesque portantes |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | As feele of money and of clothing seendynge to his fader, addynge to hem ten hee assis, that shulden karye of alle the ricchessis of Egipte, and as feele she assis, whete in the weye, and breed berynge. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And vnto his father he sent after the same maner: .x. he asses laden with good out of Egipte and .x. she asses laden with corne bred and meate: to serue his father by the waye. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with corn and bread and meat, for his father by the way. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And to his father he sent ten asses with good things from Egypt on their backs, and ten she-asses with grain and bread and food for his father on the journey. |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 45, Verse 23 |
| Cebuano | Ug sa iyang amahan iyang gipadala kini: napulo ka asno nga lake nga giluwanan sa labing maayo sa Egipto, ug napulo ka asno nga baye nga giluwanan sa trigo, ug tinapay, ug pagkaon alang sa iyang amahan sa dalan. |
| Croatian | Isto tako pošalje svome ocu: deset magaraca natovarenih najboljim plodovima egipatskim i deset magarica natovarenih žitom, kruhom i namirnicama ocu za put. |
| Danish | og sin Fader sendte han ti Æsler med det bedste, der var i Ægypten og ti Aseninder med Korn, Brød og Rejsetæring til Faderen. |
| Dutch | En zijn vader desgelijks zond hij tien ezelen, dragende van het beste van Egypte, en tien ezelinnen, dragende koren, en brood, en spijze voor zijn vader op den weg. |
| Finnish | Samoin hän lähetti isälleen lahjaksi kymmenen aasia, jotka olivat kuormitetut Egyptin parhaimmilla tavaroilla, ja kymmenen aasintammaa, jotka kantoivat viljaa ja leipää sekä eväitä hänen isälleen matkaa varten. |
| French | Il envoya à son père dix ânes chargés de ce qu`il y avait de meilleur en Égypte, et dix ânesses chargées de blé, de pain et de vivres, pour son père pendant le voyage. |
| German | Und seinem Vater sandte er dabei zehn Esel, mit Gut aus Ägypten beladen, und zehn Eselinnen mit Getreide und Brot und Speise seinem Vater auf den Weg. |
| Hungarian | Atyjának pedig külde ilyenképen: tíz szamarat égyiptomi javakkal terhelve, és tíz nõstény szamarat gabonával, kenyérrel és egyéb élelemmel terhelve, az õ atyjának az útra. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ia mengirimkan kepada ayahnya sepuluh ekor keledai yang dibebani dengan barang-barang yang terbaik dari Mesir, dan sepuluh keledai lagi yang dibebani dengan gandum, roti dan makanan lain untuk dimakan dalam perjalanannya ke Mesir. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka kepada bapanya dikirimnyalah ini: sepuluh ekor keledai jantan yang muat barang yang indah-indah dari negeri Mesir, dan sepuluh ekor keledai betina yang muat gandum dan roti dan pelbagai makanan bagi bapanya di jalan. |
| Maori | A ko nga mea tenei i homai e ia kia kawea ki tona papa; kotahi tekau nga kaihe e waha ana i nga mea papai o Ihipa, me nga kaihe uha kotahi tekau, ko ta ratou kawenga he witi, he taro, hei kai ma tona papa ki te ara. |
| Norwegian | Likeledes sendte han til sin far ti asener som bar av det beste Egypten hadde, og ti aseninner som bar korn og brød og fødevarer for hans far. på reisen. |
| Portuguese | E a seu pai enviou o seguinte: dez jumentos carregados do melhor do Egito, e dez jumentas carregadas de trigo, pão e provisão para seu pai, para o caminho. |
| Rumanian | Tatqlui squ i -a trimes zece mqgari kncqrcayi cu ce era mai bun kn Egipt, wi zece mqgqriye kncqrcate cu grku, pkne wi merinde, pentru ca sq aibq pe drum. |
| Swedish | Och till sin fader sände han likaledes gåvor: tio åsnor, lastade med det bästa Egypten hade, och tio åsninnor, lastade med säd och bröd och andra livsmedel åt hans fader för resan. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BRED": brede, bredes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "BRED": calibred, colorbred, crossbred, highbred, homebred, inbred, interbred, linebred, lowbred, outbred, overbred, purebred, rebred, sabred, saddlebred, standardbred, straightbred, thoroughbred, truebred, unbred, underbred. (additional references) | |
Words containing "BRED": crossbreds, homebreds, inbreds, purebreds, saddlebreds, standardbreds, straightbreds, thoroughbreds. (additional references) | |
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"BRED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abred, bedr, beed, berc, Berd, bered, brd, bre, bredde, breds, Bredun, Bredy, bree, breeb, breev, bref, breg, brei, brek, brel, breld, Brem, breo, breq, brer, Br'er, bretz, breud, brev, brewd, brex, Brey, brez, bridd, brod, brrod, byed, byrde, byrled, rbet, vred, xbred, yred, zred. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BRED" (pronounced bre"d) |
| 4 | b r e" d | bread, interbred, purebred, thoroughbred. |
| 3 | -r e" d | dread, read, red, Redd, retread, shred, spread, thread, tread, unread, widespread. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-r" | |
-1 letter: bed, deb, reb, red. | |
-2 letters: be, de, ed, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-r" | |
+1 letter: ardeb, barde, bared, beard, bider, bored, bread, brede, breed, bride, debar, derby, orbed, rebid, redub, robed. | |
+2 letters: abider, abrade, adverb, ardebs, badder, badger, balder, bander, barbed, barded, bardes, barfed, barged, barked, barred, beards, bedder, bedrid, bedrug, begird, bender, bidder, biders, binder, birded, birder, birdie, birled, birred, blared, bolder, bonder, bordel, border, boride, braced, braked, braved, brayed, brazed, breads, bready, bredes, breeds, brewed, bribed, brides, bridge, bridle, brined, browed, bruted, budder, budger, burden, burdie, buried, burked, burled, burned, burped, burred, byrled, curbed, dabber, dauber, debark, debars, debris, debtor, desorb, dibber, dobber, dubber, dumber, garbed, herbed, inbred, kerbed, probed, rebids, rebind, rebody, rebred, redbay, redbud, redbug, redubs, ribbed, robbed, rubbed, rubied, sabred, serdab, sorbed, unbred, verbid. | |
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