Word.ws English Dictionary

Plural of birth

regular plural

The plural of birth is births.

Forms of birth

Singularbirth /bɜːθ/
Pluralbirths
Countablecountable and uncountable

Births in a sentence

  • Intersex babies account for roughly one per cent of all births.
  • Athos and Cetaganda are the two worlds of the Vorkosiverse most reliant on uterine replicator births.2020, Ally Wolfe, “Womb with a View: Ectogenesis in Ethan of Athos and Brave New World”, in Regina Yung Lee, Una McCormack, editors…. From the entry Vorkosiverse
  • He could reinstate the cycle of chosen births, or enact any of a hundred other terrible laws.”2017, J. C. Staudt, Children of the Wastes. From the entry maniac
  • En caul births were rare, and I’d only ever seen pictures in clinical books.2016, Jennifer Manuel, chapter 1, in The Heaviness of Things That Float, Madeira Park, B.C.: Douglas & McIntyre, →ISBN, page 15. From the entry en caul
  • At haul-outs, seals may rest and socialise but pup births are rare.2013, Roger Kirkwood, Simon Goldsworthy, Fur Seals and Sea Lions. From the entry haul-out

Meaning of birth

  1. noun The process of childbearing; the beginning of life; the emergence of a human baby or other viviparous animal offspring from the mother's body into the environment.
  2. noun An instance of childbirth.
  3. noun A beginning or start; a point of origin.

Full definition of birth

Questions about the plural of birth

What is the plural of birth?
The plural of birth is births.
Is birth countable?
Birth is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: birth (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “Plural of birth.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/plural/birth. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.