Usually means: To cause; give rise to.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. beget: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. beget: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. beget: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. beget: Collins English Dictionary
  5. beget: Vocabulary.com
  6. Beget, beget: Wordnik
  7. beget: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. beget: Wiktionary
  9. beget: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. beget: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. beget: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Beget, beget: Dictionary.com
  13. beget: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Beget: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Beget: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. beget: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. beget: Rhymezone
  18. Beget: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. beget: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. beget: Free Dictionary
  21. beget: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. beget: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. beget: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beget: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beget: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To father; to sire; to produce (a child).
verb:  To cause; to produce.
verb:  To bring forth.
verb:  (UK dialectal) To happen to; befall.

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