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Definition of birth : 1. Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.
2. Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.
3. See Berth.
4. That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.
5. The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth.
6. The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; - generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.
7. The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.

Synonyms:

fork over, decease, accept, stick out, pitch, classism, digest, bloodline, rich, turn in, tolerate, contain, alliance, class-conscious, kind, endure, put up, consanguineous, amniotic fluid, deliver, receive, giving birth, rank, the afterbirth, background, extraction, extradite, gestate, beginnings, support, birthing, biological, stemma, stand, own, render, hold, yield, suffer, give, the bourgeoisie, class, sustain, stock, kin, give up, turn out, appearance, bear, pedigree, have a child, race, childbearing, behave, redeem, take, bring forth, return, stimulate, consume, blood line, induce, possess, give birth, family, antenatal, lineage, delivery, affinity, take in, parentage, descent, feature, travail, blood, kindred, conduct, hand over, take over, comport, throw, wear, brook, baby blues, line of descent, bourgeois, genealogy, precede, experience, childbirth, fork up, ingest, outset, classless, lying-in, save, bear a child, cede, opening, parenthood, produceproduce, surrender, baby shower, cause, acquit, noblesse, beneath, have a bun in the oven, ancestry, seed, deport, stomach, fork out, over, carry, drive home, accouchement, relationship, pay, blue blood, assume, let, have, nobility, arrival, expect, get, arrive, onset, labor, anti-choice, rescue, have got, death, abide, present, amniocentesis, starting point, line, nascence, make, consanguinity, parturition

embark, hatch, bud, initiate, introduce, inaugurate, develop, germinate, prepare, commence, emerge, induct, originate, create, initialize, undertake, conceive, begin, form

embryo, origin, inception, babyhood, derivation, introduction, cradle, hatching, earliness, infancy, prelude, Genesis, source, precursor, commencement, nascency, emergence, nativity, beginning, start, sprout, preparation, stem, inauguration, creation, conception, dawn, spring

Usage examples:

• And his mother, haughtily severe though she was, seemed to excuse this, as if in her opinion a man of his birth was bound by way of protest to keep apart from official life under a Republic. - "Paris From the "Three Cities"", Emile Zola.
• All her land, and all her birth- and who be you, I'd like to know? - "Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor", R. D. Blackmore.
• What have we to say about His birth? - "The Master's Indwelling", Andrew Murray.