beget
verb (used with object)
(especially of a male parent) to procreate or generate (offspring).
begetter
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a word derived from
beget.
Example Sentences
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I don’t mean simply that the character Mr. Hawke plays — an initially enigmatic, eventually pathetic, finally endearing musician named Tucker Crowe — is the begetter of a begetter.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2018
Yeah, I’m aware that Code is put on by Recode, a Verge sibling under the great Vox Media begetter.
From The Verge ● Jun. 3, 2016
In Boris Johnson's biography, he promotes the more liberal side of Churchill as the "begetter of some of the most progressive legislation for 200 years".
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2015
A little less agreeable and way more aggressive than its better begetter, Rio 2 has the overstuffed agenda of a movie that’s been focus-grouped to death.
From Time ● Apr. 10, 2014
The dedication, read in the light of these observations, acquires a character of jocularity, and begetter means procurer or getter.
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes
