NATIVITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nativity mean? 

• NATIVITY (noun)
  The noun NATIVITY has 2 senses:

1. the event of being born

2. the theological doctrine that Jesus Christ had no human father; Christians believe that Jesus's birth fulfilled Old Testament prophecies and was attended by miracles; the Nativity is celebrated at Christmas

  Familiarity information: NATIVITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATIVITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The event of being born

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

birth; nascence; nascency; nativity

Context example:

they celebrated the birth of their first child

Hypernyms ("nativity" is a kind of...):

alteration; change; modification (an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nativity"):

delivery (the event of giving birth)

live birth (the birth of a living fetus (regardless of the length of gestation))

posthumous birth (birth of a child by Caesarean section after the death of the mother)

posthumous birth (birth of a child after the father has died)

rebirth; reincarnation; renascence (a second or new birth)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The theological doctrine that Jesus Christ had no human father; Christians believe that Jesus's birth fulfilled Old Testament prophecies and was attended by miracles; the Nativity is celebrated at Christmas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

Nativity; Virgin Birth

Hypernyms ("Nativity" is a kind of...):

theological doctrine (the doctrine of a religious group)

Holonyms ("Nativity" is a part of...):

Christian theology (the teachings of Christian churches)

 Context examples 

He once wrote a Nativity play that brought him quite a bit of local appreciation.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I replied that England (the dear place of my nativity) was computed to produce three times the quantity of food more than its inhabitants are able to consume, as well as liquors extracted from grain, or pressed out of the fruit of certain trees, which made excellent drink, and the same proportion in every other convenience of life.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)