BREEDER

breeder, stock breeder

(noun) a person who breeds animals

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

breeder (plural breeders)

A person who breeds plants or animals (professionally).

(slang, derogatory) A person who has had or who is capable of having children; a person who is focussed on the rearing of their own children.

(gay slang, derogatory) A heterosexual; i.e. one whose sexual intercourse can lead to breeding.

Synonym: Thesaurus:heterosexual

Ellipsis of breeder reactor.; a type of nuclear reactor that creates material suitable for the production of atomic weapons.

(cellular automata) A pattern that exhibits quadratic growth by generating multiple copies of a secondary pattern, each of which then generates multiple copies of a tertiary pattern.

Anagrams

• rebreed

Source: Wiktionary


Breed"er, n.

1. One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc. She was a great breeder. Dr. A. Carlyle. Italy and Rome have been the best breeders of worthy men. Ascham.

2. A cause. "The breeder of my sorrow." Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

22 February 2025

ANALYSIS

(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’


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