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Webster 1913 Edition
Breeder
Breed′er
,Noun.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Breeder
BREE'DER
,Noun.
1.
The person who educates or brings up; that which brings up.Italy and Rome have been the best breeders of worthy men.
2.
That which produces.Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.
3.
One who raises a breed; one who takes care to raise a particular breed, or breeds, as of horses or cattle.Definition 2024
breeder
breeder
English
Noun
breeder (plural breeders)
- A person who breeds plants or animals professionally.
- (gay slang, derogatory) A heterosexual; i.e. one whose sexual intercourse can lead to breeding.
- Since the breeders started coming here, you can never tell who likes cock.
- A type of nuclear reactor that creates material suitable for the production of atomic weapons. (See Wikipedia's article on fast breeder reactors.)
- (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.
- 1729, Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal
- The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children, although I apprehend there cannot be so many, under the present distresses of the kingdom; but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand breeders.
- 1729, Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal
- (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.
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professional plants or animal breeder
heterosexual
type of nuclear reactor
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slang, derogatory: person focussed on the rearing of their children
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pattern in cellular automation