sire
[sahyuh r]
noun
the male parent of a quadruped.
a respectful term of address, now used only to a male sovereign.
Archaic.
- a father or forefather.
- a person of importance or in a position of authority, as a lord.
verb (used with object), sired, sir·ing.
to beget; procreate as the father.
Origin of sire
1175–1225; Middle English < Old French (nominative singular) < Vulgar Latin *seior, for Latin senior senior (compare French monsieur orig., my lord, with sieur < *seiōr-, oblique stem of *seior)
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Contemporary Examples of sired
Laffer has sired a prodigious number of children, six of them.
And yes, he lied one more time after being caught by a tabloid photographer with said woman and the child he sired.
Historical Examples of sired
We are black, born of black mothers, and sired by black fathers.
My Kalulu, Prince, King and SlaveHenry M. Stanley
It was conceived in avarice, sired in ignorance, and dammed in greed.
The Modern Ku Klux KlanHenry Peck Fry
That great being who sired our glorious country, is yet to come again.
The Corner House Girls in a PlayGrace Brooks Hill
Sired by a hurricane, dam'd by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the small-pox on the mother's side!
Life On The Mississippi, CompleteMark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
She's a beauty, gentlemen, sired by the famous Potiphar who won the Epsom Handicap and no end of minor stakes.
Boyhood in NorwayHjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
sire
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Word Origin for sire
C13: from Old French, from Latin senior an elder, from senex an old man
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