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Definition of 'sire'English
Noun
( en-noun)
A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
A male animal; a stud, especially a horse or dog, that has fathered another.
(obsolete) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
* Shakespeare
- And raise his issue, like a loving sire .
(obsolete) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
* Shelley
- [He] was the sire of an immortal strain.
Verb
( sir)
Of a male: to procreate; to father, beget.
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 6:
- In these travels, my father sired thirteen children in all, four boys and nine girls.
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