Usually means: Produce offspring or generate new.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. spawn: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. spawn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spawn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. spawn: Collins English Dictionary
  5. spawn: Vocabulary.com
  6. Spawn, spawn: Wordnik
  7. spawn: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Spawn, spawn: Wiktionary
  9. spawn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. spawn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. spawn: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. spawn: Dictionary.com
  13. spawn (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. spawn: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SPAWN, Spawn (Game Boy Color), Spawn (T.V Series), Spawn (TV series), Spawn (biology), Spawn (comics), Spawn (computing), Spawn (disambiguation), Spawn (film), Spawn (novel), Spawn (upcoming film), Spawn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Spawn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. spawn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. spawn: Rhymezone
  19. Spawn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. spawn: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. spawn: Free Dictionary
  22. spawn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. spawn: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. spawn: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Spawn (disambiguation), spawn: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. spawn: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. Spawn (biology), Spawn (disambiguation), spawn: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Spawn (biology), Spawn (disambiguation), spawn: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SPAWN: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spawn: Mussel Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spawn [of satan]: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See spawned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
verb:  (transitive) To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers.
verb:  (transitive) To bring forth in general.
verb:  (transitive) To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.
verb:  (transitive) To plant with fungal spawn.
verb:  (intransitive) To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.
verb:  (intransitive) To reproduce, especially in large numbers.
verb:  (ergative, video games) To appear, or cause (something or someone) to appear, spontaneously in a game world at a particular place and time.
verb:  (ergative, figuratively, Internet slang) To appear, or cause (something or someone) to appear, unexpectedly and seemingly out of nowhere.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively, Internet slang, humorous) Of a person or non-egg-laying animal: to be born.
noun:  The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.
noun:  Mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation.
noun:  Any germ or seed, even a figurative source.
noun:  (often derogatory) Children; offspring.
noun:  (horticulture) The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
noun:  (video games) Synonym of spawn point.
noun:  A surname.

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