Synonyms for mating


Grammar : Verb
Spell : meyt
Phonetic Transcription : meɪt

Top 10 synonyms for mating Other synonyms for the word mating

Définition of mating

Origin :
  • "checkmate," c.1300, from Old French mater "to checkmate, defeat, overcome," from mat "checkmated" (see checkmate (v.)).
  • verb marry and breed
Example sentences :
  • Does it not throw some doubts upon your own psychic fitness for mating at all?
  • Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
  • No longer do they withhold knowledge of love, mating, and the renewal of life.
  • Extract from : « The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book » by Various
  • Mating seasons and habits shed some light on the natural aspect.
  • Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
  • Besides, I don't believe in mating people like cattle or slaves.
  • Extract from : « Mother America » by Sam McClatchie
  • That might be lost to her; but even so, she could not decline from its dear memory to a mating like this.
  • Extract from : « Judith of the Cumberlands » by Alice MacGowan
  • In the mating season some birds have beauties which are ordinarily concealed.
  • Extract from : « The Log of the Sun » by William Beebe
  • Birth as the natural sequence of mating is her solemn and invariable law.
  • Extract from : « Sex » by Henry Stanton
  • It is large in the lion and the eagle, and in all mating birds and animals.
  • Extract from : « How to Become Rich » by William Windsor
  • Naturalists have heretofore considered this swarming to be a mating of the two sexes.
  • Extract from : « The Dawn of Reason » by James Weir
  • He swelled a little with the strutting spirit of the mating male.
  • Extract from : « The Tyranny of Weakness » by Charles Neville Buck

Antonyms for mating

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