Usually means: To father; give birth to.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. begat: Merriam-Webster
  2. begat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. begat: Collins English Dictionary
  4. begat: Vocabulary.com
  5. Begat, begat: Wordnik
  6. begat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. begat: Wiktionary
  8. begat: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Begat, begat: Dictionary.com
  10. Begat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Begat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. begat: FreeDictionary.org
  13. begat: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. begat: Legal dictionary

(Note: See beget as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (nonstandard) To beget.
noun:  (nonstandard) An element of a lineage, especially of a lineage given in the Bible

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