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- Dictionaryspawn/spɔːn/
verb
- 1. (of a fish, frog, mollusc, crustacean, etc.) release or deposit eggs: "the fish spawn among fine-leaved plants"
- 2. (of a person) produce (offspring): derogatory "why had she married a man who could spawn a boy like that?"
noun
- 1. the eggs of fish, frogs, etc.: "the fish covers its spawn with gravel"
- 2. the product or offspring of a person or place: derogatory "the spawn of Satan"
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to cause something new, or many new things, to grow or start suddenly: The new economic freedom has spawned hundreds of new small businesses. Her death spawned countless films and books. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Causing things to happen. activate. activation. actuation. agent. attribute something to someone. hyperstimulate.
Meaning of spawn in English. spawn. noun. uk / spɔːn / us / spɑːn / spawn noun (EGGS) Add to word list. [ U ] the eggs of fish, frogs, etc. See also. frogspawn. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Animal reproduction. androgen. anti-oestrogen. asexuality. asexually. barrenness. calve. fertile. gamete. impregnate. out-reproduce. ovulate.
The meaning of SPAWN is to deposit or fertilize spawn. How to use spawn in a sentence.
verb (used without object) to deposit eggs or sperm directly into the water, as fishes. (of a character or item in a video game) to originate at a fixed point in an existing game environment: An enemy character just spawned right on top of me!
1. The eggs of aquatic animals such as bivalve mollusks, fishes, and amphibians. 2. Offspring, especially when occurring in large numbers. 3. A product or an outcome: the spawn of a prodigious imagination. 4. Mycelia of mushrooms or other fungi grown in specially prepared organic matter for planting in beds. v. spawned, spawn·ing, spawns v.intr.
Definition of spawn verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
noun. 1. the mass of eggs deposited by fish, amphibians, or molluscs. 2. often derogatory. offspring, product, or yield. 3. botany the nontechnical name for mycelium. verb. 4. (of fish, amphibians, etc) to produce or deposit (eggs) 5. often derogatory.
spawn. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Animals, Fish spawn1 /spɔːn $ spɒːn/ verb 1 [ transitive] to make a series of things happen or start to exist New technology has spawned new business opportunities. 2 [ intransitive, transitive] if a fish or frog spawns, it produces eggs in large quantities at the same ...
Technically, the mass of small eggs laid by animals like fish, frogs, mollusks is called spawn. But the word has been borrowed to mean offspring, or the act of making them in general. When someone is in league with the devil, a preacher might refer to them as “Satan’s spawn.”.
verb. Simple past tense and past participle of spawn. Wiktionary. Synonyms: bred. increased. multiplied. procreated. propagated. reproduced. begotten. hatched. made. created. engendered. fathered. produced. sired. originated. Antonyms: destroyed. Spawned Sentence Examples.
