births
SayBURTHSUS/bɜɹθs/UK · AUS/bɜːθs/
- 1Plural of birth.
The country saw a sharp decline in births over the past decade.
Midwives in the clinic attend dozens of births each month.
Note
Only some meanings of birth can take a plural. The countable ones pluralize freely: separate deliveries, as in yearly counts of births, and beginnings, as in the births of new movements. Childbearing as a process and birth as ancestry stay uncountable, so someone is of humble birth, never of humble births. In older texts, births can also be an obsolete spelling of berths.
births is a form of birth
birth, noun: The act or process of being born or of giving birth to a baby or young animal; also, one occurrence of this. Full entry
- Forms
- birthbirths plural
- Spelling
- birth → births: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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