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BEGOTTEN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does begotten mean?
• BEGOTTEN (adjective)
The adjective BEGOTTEN has 1 sense:
1. (of offspring) generated by procreation
Familiarity information: BEGOTTEN used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of offspring) generated by procreation
Context example:
naturally begotten child
Similar:
biological; natural ((of a parent or child) related by blood; genetically related)
Context examples
He have follow the wake of the berserker Icelander, the devil-begotten Hun, the Slav, the Saxon, the Magyar.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented place that Broadway had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village—appalled by its raw vigor that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants along a short cut from nothing to nothing.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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