Breeding

n.	1.	The act or process of generating or bearing.
	2.	The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.
	3.	Nurture; education; formation of manners. She had her breeding at my father's charge. - Shak.
	4.	Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society. Delicacy of breeding, or that polite deference and respect which civility obliges us either to express or counterfeit towards the persons with whom we converse. - Hume.
	5.	Descent; pedigree; extraction. Honest gentlemen, I know not your breeding. - Shak. Close breeding breeding from a male and female from the same parentage. Cross breeding breeding from a male and female of different lineage. Good breeding politeness; genteel deportment.

Noun	1.	breeding - elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression Synonyms: genteelness, gentility
	2.	breeding - the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior); "a woman of breeding and refinement" Synonyms: training, education
	3.	breeding - raising someone to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important" Synonyms: bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, rearing, upbringing, raising
	4.	breeding - the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization
	5.	breeding - the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring Synonyms: facts of life, procreation, reproduction
Adj.	1.	breeding - producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring; "the breeding population"; "retained a few bulls for breeding purposes"

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