begot

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A form of beget — To produce or bring forth (a child); to be a parent of; to father or sire.

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Meanings

verb
  1. pastsimple past of beget

    Synonyms: begat

  2. archaicparticiplepastpast participle of beget

    Good my Lord, You haue begot me, bred me, lou'd me.

    c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 284, column 1
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    This day I have begot whom I declare / My onely Son, and on this holy Hill[…]

    1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC

    […]for the most part empires have begot hybrid civilisations that absorbed much from their subject peoples.

    2014 September 4, Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Random House, →ISBN, page 166

Synonyms & antonyms

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Rhymes & wordplay

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APA

begot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/begot

MLA

“begot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/begot. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “begot,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/begot.

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