Hyphenation of Breeding

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word Breeding? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

Breed-ing

Definitions of Breeding:

1.	Elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
2.	The result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior) A woman of breeding and refinement
3.	Helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community They debated whether nature or nurture was more important
4.	The production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization
5.	The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
6.	Producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring The breeding population Retained a few bulls for breeding purposes

Synonyms of Breeding:

adj	fruitful
noun	genteelness, gentility, elegance
noun	education, training, upbringing
noun	bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing, socialization, socialisation, acculturation, enculturation
noun	production
noun	reproduction, procreation, facts of life, sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

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