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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
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Noun, Verb (transitive)

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun sire has 3 senses

sire(n = noun.person) - a title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority;

sire(n = noun.person) father, forefather - the founder of a family; "keep the faith of our forefathers"

is a kind of ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, ascendent, root

has particulars: patriarch

Derived form verb sire₁

sire(n = noun.animal) - male parent of an animal especially a domestic animal such as a horse;

is a kind of

male

Derived form verb sire₁

Verb sire has 1 sense

sire(v = verb.body) beget, bring forth, engender, father, generate, get, mother - make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them"

is one way to create, make

Derived forms noun sire₃, noun sire₂

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody

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CIDE DICTIONARY

sire, n. [F. sire, originally, an older person. See Sir.].

A lord, master, or other person in authority. See Sir. [1913 Webster]
"Pain and distress, sickness and ire,
And melancholy that angry sire,
Be of her palace senators." [1913 Webster]
A tittle of respect formerly used in speaking to elders and superiors, but now only in addressing a sovereign. [1913 Webster]
A father; the head of a family; the husband. [1913 Webster]
"Jankin thet was our sire [i.e., husband]." [1913 Webster]

"And raise his issue, like a loving sire." [1913 Webster]
A creator; a maker; an author; an originator. [1913 Webster]
"[He] was the sire of an immortal strain." [1913 Webster]
The male parent of a beast; -- applied especially to horses; as, the horse had a good sire. [1913 Webster]
" Sire is often used in composition; as in grandsire, grandfather; great-grandsire, great-grandfather." [1913 Webster]

sire, v. t.

To beget; to procreate; -- used of beasts, and especially of stallions. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

sire, n. & v.
--n.
1 the male parent of an animal, esp. a stallion kept for breeding.
2 archaic a respectful form of address, now esp. to a king.
3 archaic poet. a father or male ancestor.
--v.tr. (esp. of a stallion) beget.

Etymology

ME f. OF ult. f. L senior: see SENIOR

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THESAURUS

sire

Esquire, Master, Mister, Sir, abba, agent, ancestors, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, author, bear, beget, begetter, beginner, birth, breed, breed true, bring about, bring forth, bring to birth, bring to effect, bring to pass, builder, catalyst, cause, causer, conceive, conceiver, constructor, copulate, craftsman, create, creator, crossbreed, dad, daddy, dean, designer, deviser, discoverer, do, doyen, doyenne, effect, effector, effectuate, effendi, elder, eldest, emir, engender, engenderer, engineer, establish, executor, executrix, father, first-born, firstling, foster father, found, founder, generate, generator, genitor, gestate, get, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to, governor, grower, hatch, inaugurate, inaugurator, inbreed, industrialist, initiator, inspirer, instigator, institute, institutor, introducer, inventor, journeyman, khan, make, make love, maker, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, mirza, mother, mover, multiply, occasion, older, oldest, organizer, originate, originator, outbreed, pa, pap, papa, pappy, parent, past master, pater, paterfamilias, patriarch, planner, pop, pops, precursor, prime mover, primum mobile, procreate, produce, producer, progenerate, proliferate, propagate, raiser, realize, realizer, reproduce in kind, sahib, senior, set afloat, set on foot, set up, shaper, sirdar, sirrah, smith, spawn, stepfather, the old man, work, wright

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ROGET THESAURUS

sire

Paternity

N paternity, parentage, consanguinity, parent, father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba, genitor, progenitor, procreator, ancestor, grandsire, grandfather, great- grandfather, fathership, fatherhood, mabap, house, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan, genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry, forefathers, forbears, patriarchs, motherhood, maternity, mother, dam, mamma, materfamilias, grandmother, paternal, parental, maternal, family, ancestral, linear, patriarchal, avi numerantur avorum, happy he with such a mother, hombre bueno no le busquen abolengo, philosophia stemma non inspicit.