procreate
/ˌpɹəʊkɹiˈeɪt/
procreate verb: to beget or conceive (offsprings).
Verb
procreate (third-person singular simple present procreates, present participle procreating, simple past and past participle procreated)
Adjective
procreate (comparative more procreate, superlative most procreate)
- Procreated, begotten.
- And furthermore, since many inconveniences have fallen, as well within this realm as in others, by reason of marrying within degrees of marriage prohibited by God's laws, that is to say, the son to marry the mother, or the stepmother, the brother the sister, the father his son's daughter, or his...1533–4, First Succession Act (25 Hen. 8. c. 22)
- Some of these Kings, dying without procreate Heires.1632, William Lithgow, The totall discourse of the rare adventures & painefull peregrinations of long nineteen yeares travayles from Scotland to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Affrica...
Noun
procreate (plural procreates)
- The produce of money, interest.
- If the Paiment be half Yearly or Quarterly […] let the Log. of the Yearly Procreat be multiplied accordingly, by ¹⁄₃ or ¹⁄₂.1696, Samuel Jeake, Arithmetick Surveighed and Reviewed published, 578
procreate meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
procreate in Tamil
- மகப்பெறு, குழந்தை பெறு, இனப்பெருக்கு, சந்ததியை உருவாக்கு
procreate in Urdu
- جنم دینا, جننا, پیدا کرنا
procreate in Bengali
- সন্তান উৎপাদন করা, প্রজনন করা
procreate in Malayalam
- reproduce, produce offspring, multiply
- പ്രജനം നടത്തുക, ജനിപ്പിക്കുക, ഉത്പാദിപ്പിക്കുക, ജന്മം നൽകുക, സന്തതി ഉൽപാദിപ്പിക്കുക, പുനരുൽപ്പാദിപ്പിക്കുക
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- procreate in Sanskrit
- जनयति janayati
Synonyms of procreate
Forms of procreate
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | procreates |
| present participle | procreating |
| past participle | procreated |
| past | procreated |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more procreate |
| superlative | most procreate |
| Noun | |
| plural | procreates |
Origin of procreate
The adjective is first attested in the first part of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English, the verb in 1525; inherited from Middle English procreat(e) (“(construed as past participle) begotten, procreated”), borrowed from Latin prōcreātus, perfect passive participle of prōcreō (“to beget”), see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3); by surface analysis, pro- + create. Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Words formed from procreate
Questions about procreate
- What does procreate mean?
- Procreate means to beget or conceive (offsprings).
- What is procreate in Tamil?
- Procreate in Tamil is மகப்பெறு, குழந்தை பெறு, இனப்பெருக்கு. See Procreate meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is procreate?
- Procreate can be a verb, an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce procreate?
- Procreate is pronounced /ˌpɹəʊkɹiˈeɪt/.
- What is the past tense of procreate?
- The past tense of procreate is procreated.
Words near procreate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: procreate (page history and authors); procreate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); procreate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); procreate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); procreate (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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