To give birth to something such as an idea means to cause it to start to exist. In 1980, strikes at the Lenin shipyards gave birth to the Solidarity trade union
If, for example, you are French by birth, you are French because your parents are French, or because you were born in France. Sadrudin was an Iranian by birth
When a woman gives birth, she produces a baby from her body. She's just given birth to a baby girl
The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency
the time when something begins (especially life); "they divorced after the birth of the child"; "his election signaled the birth of a new age"
When a baby is born, you refer to this event as his or her birth. It was the birth of his grandchildren which gave him greatest pleasure She weighed 5lb 7oz at birth. premature births
one of the two points in child development where change is relatively sudden, in this case where the child reaches the outside world after being in the womb for nine months
You can refer to the beginning or origin of something as its birth. the birth of popular democracy