Spawn

English

Verb

Spawn (third-person singular simple present Spawns, present participle Spawning, simple past and past participle Spawned)

1. (transitive) To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
2. (transitive) To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers.
3. (transitive) To bring forth in general.
4. (transitive) To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn
5. (transitive) To plant with fungal spawn
6. (intransitive) To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.
7. (intransitive) To reproduce, especially in large numbers.
8. (intransitive, video games) (of a character or object) To appear spontaneously in a game at a certain point and time.

Derived terms

• respawn
• spawn point
• spawner

Noun

Spawn (plural spawn)

1. The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism
2. Mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation
3. (by extension) Any germ or seed, even a figurative source; offspring

Derived terms

• hellspawn

Thesaurus

albumen, bear, beget, breed, bring about, bring forth, bring into being, brood, call into being, cause, caviar, clutch, coin, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up, create, deposit, design, develop, devise, discover, dream up, drop, egg, egg white, eggshell, engender, evolve, fabricate, farrow, father, fish eggs, frame, fry, generate, get, give being to, give birth to, give rise to, glair, hatch, improvise, invent, lay, litter, make, make do with, make up, mature, mint, nest, originate, ovule, parent, plan, procreate, produce, roe, sire, spat, strike out, think out, think up, vitellus, white, yellow, yield, yolk, young

Etymology

Recorded since 1413; from Middle English spawne, spawnen, from Anglo-Norman espaundre, from Old French espandre, from Latin expandere (“stretch out", "spread out”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔːn

Translations

Verb

to produce or deposit (eggs) in water

German: ablaichen (de), laichen (de) Latvian: nārstot (lv)

Scottish Gaelic: cladh (gd) Turkish: yumurtlamak (tr)

to generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers

German: erzeugen (de), hervorbringen (de) Scottish Gaelic: cladh (gd)

Turkish: yumurtlamak (tr)

to bring forth in general

German: erzeugen (de)

Turkish: meydana getirmek (tr), oluşturmak (tr), ortaya çıkmak (tr)

to induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn

to plant with fungal spawn

to deposit (numerous) eggs in water

German: laichen (de) Latvian: nārstot (lv)

Scottish Gaelic: cladh (gd) Turkish: yumurtlamak (tr), durmadan doğurmak (tr)

to reproduce, especially in large numbers

German: (sich wie Karnickel) sich vermehren (de)

to appear spontaneously in a game at a certain point and time

Noun

the numerous eggs of an aquatic organism

German: Laich (de) m. Latvian: ikri (lv) m. pl.

Scottish Gaelic: cladh (gd) m. Turkish: döl (tr), yumurta (tr)

mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation

any germ or seed, even a figurative source; offspring

Turkish: nesil (tr), soy (tr), zürriyet (tr)

Anagrams

• pawns