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spawn
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sp??n/
- Rhymes: -??n
Etymology 1
Recorded since 1413; from Middle English spawnen, from Anglo-Norman espaundre, from Old French espandre, from Latin expandere (“stretch out; spread out”, verb). Doublet of expand. Compare also Middle English spalden, spolden, spawden (“to cut open (a fish)”).
Verb
spawn (third-person singular simple present spawns, present participle spawning, simple past and past participle spawned)
- (transitive) To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
- (transitive) To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers.
- (transitive) To bring forth in general.
- The Web server spawns a new process to handle each client's request.
- (transitive) To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.
- (transitive) To plant with fungal spawn.
- (intransitive) To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.
- (intransitive) To reproduce, especially in large numbers.
- (ergative, video games, of a character or object) (To cause) to appear spontaneously in a game at a certain point and time.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English spawne, from the verb (see above).
Noun
spawn (plural spawn or spawns)
- The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.
- Mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation.
- (by extension, sometimes derogatory) Any germ or seed, even a figurative source; offspring.
- (horticulture) The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
- (video games) The location in a game where characters or objects spontaneously appear.
Derived terms
- hellspawn
Translations
Anagrams
- WPANs, pawns
spawn From the web:
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- what spawns in the end city
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- what spawns in the end city in minecraft
- what spawns in the grand reef
- what spawns in the blood kelp zone
- what spawns in the sparse reef
- what spawns from mossy lure
children
English
Alternative forms
- childer (archaic, except in Ireland)
- childs (nonstandard, rare)
- chillen (eye dialect)
Etymology
From Middle English children, alteration of earlier childre ("children"; > English dialectal childer), from Old English ?ildru, ?ildra (“children”), nominative and accusative plural of ?ild (“child”), equivalent to child +? -ren.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t???ld??n/
- (Southern American English, AAVE) IPA(key): [t??l.??n]
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): [?t???l.d??? ???n]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): [?t???ld??? ???n] (alternative)
- Hyphenation: child?ren
Noun
children
- plural of child.
Anagrams
- childern
Middle English
Noun
children
- plural of child
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- what children's songs are public domain
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