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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.
The female that breeds or produces, whether human or other animal.
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)

  1. A person who breeds plants or animals professionally.
  2. (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.
  3. A type of nuclear reactor that creates material suitable for the production of atomic weapons. (See Wikipedia's article on fast breeder reactors.)
  4. (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.
  5. (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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