Sire

English

Noun

Sire (plural Sires)

1. A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively.
2. A male animal, especially a horse or dog. In particular, one which is already, or has already been, a father.

Verb

Sire (third-person singular simple present sires, present participle siring, simple past and past participle sired)

1. (transitive) 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.

Adjectives for Sire

sweet; sapient; heathen; illustrious; loving.

Thesaurus

Esquire, Master, Mister, Sir, abba, agent, ancestors, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, author, bear, beget, begetter, beginner, birth, breed, breed true, bring about, bring forth, bring to birth, bring to effect, bring to pass, builder, catalyst, cause, causer, conceive, conceiver, constructor, copulate, craftsman, create, creator, crossbreed, dad, daddy, dean, designer, deviser, discoverer, do, doyen, doyenne, effect, effector, effectuate, effendi, elder, eldest, emir, engender, engenderer, engineer, establish, executor, executrix, father, first-born, firstling, foster father, found, founder, generate, generator, genitor, gestate, get, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to, governor, grower, hatch, inaugurate, inaugurator, inbreed, industrialist, initiator, inspirer, instigator, institute, institutor, introducer, inventor, journeyman, khan, make, make love, maker, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, mirza, mother, mover, multiply, occasion, older, oldest, organizer, originate, originator, outbreed, pa, pap, papa, pappy, parent, past master, pater, paterfamilias, patriarch, planner, pop, pops, precursor, prime mover, primum mobile, procreate, produce, producer, progenerate, proliferate, propagate, raiser, realize, realizer, reproduce in kind, sahib, senior, set afloat, set on foot, set up, shaper, sirdar, sirrah, smith, spawn, stepfather, the old man, work, wright

Etymology

Old French, sire, the nominative singular of seignor; from Latin senior, from senex

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪə(r)

Translations

Noun

lord, master, or person in authority

Esperanto: sinjoro (eo) Finnish: herra (fi) Italian: signore (it) m.

Japanese: 主 (ja) (あるじ, aruji), 陛下 (ja) (へいか, heika) Russian: государь (ru) (gosudár’) m. Spanish: amo (es) m., dueño (es) m.

male animal

Chinese: 父畜, 父兽 Finnish: koiras (fi), uros (fi)

Japanese: 雄 (ja) (おす, osu) オス (ja) (osu) Spanish: semental apareado (es) m.

Verb

to procreate

Finnish: siittää (fi), astua (fi) French: saillir (fr)

Hungarian: nemz (hu) Polish: spłodzić (pl)

Anagrams

• Eris
• ires
• reis
• rise
• Seri
• SIer

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French

Noun

Sire m. (plural Sires)

1. (obsolete) sire (term of respect)
2. (obsolete) lord

Pronunciation

• IPA: /siʁ/

Etymology

From Old French.

Anagrams

• ries

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Old French

Noun

Sire m.

1. Nominative singular of seignor