Definitions for begot

begot be·got

Spelling: [bih-got]
IPA: /bɪˈgɒt/

Begot is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in begot (begot).

Definitions for begot

verb

  1. simple past tense and a past participle of beget.

verb (used with object)

  1. (especially of a male parent) to procreate or generate (offspring).
  2. to cause; produce as an effect:

Origin of begot

before 1000; Middle English begeten (see be-, get); replacing Middle English biyeten, Old English begetan; cognate with Gothic bigitan, Old High

Examples for begot

It more often begot laughter, and his case was an instance of it.

Also afterwards he begot children on his second wife Ediltrudis.

He will rue it that ever he begot a son who will lose him his acres and his steading.

Well, this may we say: those who begot us need have no shame.

From the fame and memory of him that begot me, shamefacedness, and manlike behaviour.

These qualities, and the time he had for thinking, begot Seed-corn.

What were they, after all, but dreams, “begot of nothing but vain fantasy?”

I reflected that his was the calling which begot civilisation.

Nabopolassar, the father who begot me, had begun to build a palace of bricks.

They seem to have no acquaintance with one another, beyond that begot out of the game.

Word Value for begot
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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