Definitions for breeders

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breeders breed·er

Spelling: [bree-der]

IPA: /ˈbri dər/

Breeders is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in breeders (bdeeerrs).

Definitions for breeders

noun

1. an animal, plant, or person that produces offspring or reproduces.
2. a person who raises animals or plants primarily for breeding purposes.
3. Also called breeder reactor. Energy. a nuclear reactor in which more fissile material is produced than is consumed.
4. Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used by gays to refer to a heterosexual.
5. Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used especially by child-free people to refer to a biological parent.

Origin of breeders

First recorded in 1525-35; breed + -er¹

Examples for breeders

It would be nice to feel—as he put it the other day—that he had “a breeder” among his grandchildren.

Every breeder throughout the world had known it for centuries.

Great care, therefore, must be taken by the breeder when his calves are weaned.

This becomes a source of great annoyance and loss to the breeder.

Get thee to a nunnery: Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?

The breeder in this case does not produce the elements of the variation.

I have also been assured by a breeder that this is the case.

Improvement is after all the keynote to the breeder's operations.

So you wish me to set up as a breeder of young horses, do you, Socrates?

Slinking is one of the greatest pests to which a breeder is subjected.