birthplace

Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Legal, Acronyms, Encyclopedia.

birth·place

(bûrth′plās′)

The place where someone is born or where something originates.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

birthplace

(ˈbɜːθˌpleɪs)

the place where someone was born or where something originated

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

birth•place

(ˈbɜrθˌpleɪs)

n.

place of birth or origin.

[1600–10]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Switch to new thesaurus

Noun	1.	birthplace - the place where someone was born place of birth place, spot, topographic point - a point located with respect to surface features of some region; "this is a nice place for a picnic"; "a bright spot on a planet"
	2.	birthplace - where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence; "the birthplace of civilization" place of origin, provenance, provenience, cradle origin, source, root, rootage, beginning - the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"

birthplace

noun native land, homeland, cradle, fatherland Athens, the birthplace of the ancient Olympics.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Translations

مَحَلُّ الوِلادَةمَسْقِطُ رأْس، مكانُ وِلادَة الشَّخص

rodiště

fødested

Geburtsort

τόπος γέννησης

cuna lugar de nacimiento

زادگاه

syntymäpaikka

lieu de naissance

mjesto rođenja

születési hely

fæîingarstaîur

luogo di nascita

出生地

출생지

место рождения родина

rodisko

rojstni kraj

födelseort

สถานที่เกิด

doğum yeri

nơi sinh

出生地

birthplace

[ˈbɜːθpleɪs] N → lugar m de nacimiento

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

birthplace

birth place [ˈbɜː^rθpleɪs] n

[person] → lieu m de naissance

[thing] → berceau mbirth plan n [pregnant woman] → projet m d'accouchementbirth rate n → taux m de natalité, natalité f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

birthplace

[ˈbɜːθˌpleɪs] n → luogo di nascita; (town) → città natale

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

birth

(bəːθ) noun

1. (an) act of coming into the world, being born. the birth of her son; deaf since birth.

2. the beginning. the birth of civilization.

birth control

prevention of the conception of children.

ˈbirthday noun

the anniversary of the day on which a person was born. Today is his birthday; (also adjective) a birthday party.

ˈbirthmark noun

a permanent mark on the skin at or from birth. She has a red birthmark on her face.

ˈbirthplace noun

the place where a person etc was born. Shakespeare's birthplace.

ˈbirthrate noun

the number of births per head of population over a given period.

give birth (to)

(of a mother) to produce (a baby) from the womb. She has given birth to two sets of twins.

birthplace

→ مَحَلُّ الوِلادَة rodiště fødested Geburtsort τόπος γέννησης lugar de nacimiento syntymäpaikka lieu de naissance mjesto rođenja luogo di nascita 出生地 출생지 geboorteplaats fødested miejsce urodzenia local de nascimento место рождения födelseort สถานที่เกิด doğum yeri nơi sinh 出生地

birthplace

n. lugar de nacimiento.

References in classic literature ?

I would have liked to visit the birthplace of Gutenburg, but it could not be done, as no memorandum of the site of the house has been kept.

View in context

"The heathen had beforehand seized the higher ground," as old Asser says, having wasted everything behind them from London, and being just ready to burst down on the fair Vale, Alfred's own birthplace and heritage.

View in context

Some years ago, when you were beginning to tell me your real name and birthplace, you may remember I stopped you, and preferred to remain ignorant of all.

View in context

But the sweetest incident of Anne's sojourn in Bolingbroke was the visit to her birthplace -- the little shabby yellow house in an out-of-the-way street she had so often dreamed about.

View in context

One of them is Dwarka, the birthplace of the god Krishna.

View in context

He had wandered to this remote region from his birthplace in the interior of the State of New York, to seek his fortune.

View in context

"What is thy name, slave?" asked the princess, "and what thy race and birthplace?"

View in context

They are strangers in their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage.

View in context

Here I had found a man not made from dust; one who had no narrow boasts of birthplace or country, one who, if he bragged at all, would brag of his whole round globe against the Martians and the inhabitants of the Moon.

View in context

If the existence of the same species at distant and isolated points of the earth's surface, can in many instances be explained on the view of each species having migrated from a single birthplace; then, considering our ignorance with respect to former climatal and geographical changes and various occasional means of transport, the belief that this has been the universal law, seems to me incomparably the safest.

View in context

Could it be this abortion that had climbed to be an advocate, and now lived in the birthplace of Flora and the home of John's tenderest memories?

View in context

Had it befallen me never to quit that village--had it befallen me to remain for ever in that spot--I should always have been happy; but fate ordained that I should leave my birthplace even before my girlhood had come to an end.