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Definition: Breastfeed |
BreastfeedVerb1. Give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: BreastfeedSynonyms: give suck (v), lactate (v), nurse (v), suck (v), suckle (v), wet-nurse (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: bottlefeed (v). (additional references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Stop Bottle Feeding : Breastfeed Now. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Breastfeed" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 72.97% of the time. "Breastfeed" is used about 37 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 (infinitive) | 72.97% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 13.51% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 10.81% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 37 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 "breastfeed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | رضع بالثدي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לי וק (absorb, suck, suckle), ל" יק (nurse, suckle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | menyusukan, menyusui (suckle), meneteki, menetek. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | allattare al seno. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 赤"坊に乳'与える (to breastfeed a baby). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eastfeedbray amamentar (dry nurse, nurse, suckle, wet nurse), aleitar (nurse). (various references) dar el pecho a (suckle), amamantar (suckle). (various references) meme vermek (breast-feed, suckle), emzirmek (breast-feed, nurse, put out to nurse, suckle, wet nurse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Breastfeed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: restaffed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-e-f-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: defeaters, federates, freebased, redefeats. | |
-2 letters: breasted, debaters, defeater, draftees, federate, festered, freebase, redefeat, reseated. | |
-3 letters: afreets, beaters, bedfast, befrets, berated, berates, bestead, dabster, deafest, dearest, debaser, debater, debates, defeats, derates, draftee, feasted, feaster, feeders, rebated, rebates, redates, reested, refeeds, sabered, sedater, steered, strafed, tabered. | |
-4 letters: afreet, afters, ardebs, aretes, bardes, barest, barfed, basted, baster. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-e-e-f-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: featherbeds. | |
+5 letters: featherbeddings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100110 01100101 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B r e a s t f e e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0072 0065 0061 0073 0074 0066 0065 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36847167858672717170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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