nacimiento

Definitions of nacimiento
  1. noun
    properties attributable to your ancestry
    synonyms: ascendencia, descendencia, extracción, origen
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    type of:
    abolengo, alcurnia, linaje, prosapia
    inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
  2. noun
    the event of being born
    synonyms: natividad
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    antonyms:
    deceso, defunción, fallecimiento, fenecimiento, finamiento, muerte, obituario, óbito
    the event of dying or departure from life
    types:
    parturición
    the event of giving birth
    reencarnación
    a second or new birth
    transmigración, trasmigración
    the passing of a soul into another body after death
    type of:
    cambio, modificación
    an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
  3. noun
    the descendants of one individual
    synonyms: abolengo, alcurnia, ascendencia, casta, cepa, cuna, descendencia, estirpe, linaje, origen, prosapia, solar
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    types:
    familia
    people descended from a common ancestor
    dinastía
    a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family
    type of:
    genealogía, árbol genealógico
    successive generations of kin
  4. noun
    the place where something begins, where it springs into being
    synonyms: fuente, germen, origen, principio, venero
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    derivación
    the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues)
    manantial
    the source of water from which a stream arises
    cabecera de un río
    the source of a river
    fontanal, manantial
    the source of water for a well
    cuna, proveniencia
    where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence
    type of:
    punto
    the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
  5. noun
    the time at which something is supposed to begin
    synonyms: apertura, comienzo, empiece, iniciación, inicio, offset, principio, umbral
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    antonyms:
    conclusión, fin, final, terminación, tope
    the point in time at which something ends
    types:
    arrancadero, arranque, trampolín
    earliest limiting point
    umbral
    the starting point for a new state or experience
    type of:
    momento, punto
    an instant of time
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