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breeds

/bɹiːdz/

breeds is the plural of breed.

breeds is the third-person singular simple present indicative of breed.

Meaning of breed

Noun

breed (plural breeds)

  1. All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
    • a breed of tulip
  2. A race or lineage; offspring or issue.
    • And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence
      Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 12”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
  3. (informal) A group of people with shared characteristics.
    • People who were taught classical Greek and Latin at school are a dying breed.

See all 18 meanings of breed

Proper noun capitalized: Breeds

Breeds

  1. (plural) plural of Breed

Phrases with breeds

Words that rhyme with breeds

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Questions about breeds

What is breeds the plural of?
Breeds is the plural of breed.
What part of speech is breeds?
Breeds is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce breeds?
Breeds is pronounced /bɹiːdz/.

Words near breeds in the dictionary

  1. Breedlove
  2. Breedloves
  3. Breedon
  4. Breedon on the Hill
  5. Breedons
  6. breeds
  7. breeds in the bone
  8. breeds like rabbits
  9. breeds true
  10. breeds up
  11. breedy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: breeds (page history and authors); Breeds (page history and authors); breed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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