breeder

English

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːdə(r)

Noun

breeder (plural breeders)

1. A person who breeds plants or animals professionally.
2. (gay slang, derogatory) A heterosexual; i.e. one whose sexual intercourse can lead to breeding.

   Since the breeders started coming here, you can never tell who likes cock.

3. A type of nuclear reactor that creates material suitable for the production of atomic weapons. (See Wikipedia's article on fast breeder reactors.)
4. (slang, derogatory) a person who has had or who is capable of having children; a person who is focussed on the rearing of their own children.
   • 1729: Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal

     The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children, although I apprehend there cannot be so many, under the present distresses of the kingdom; but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand breeders.

5. (cellular automata) A pattern that exhibits quadratic growth by generating multiple copies of a secondary pattern, each of which then generates multiple copies of a tertiary pattern.

Derived terms

• stockbreeder

Related terms

• breed
• breeder reactor
• brood
• brooding

Translations

professional plants or animal breeder

• German: Züchter (de) m
• Portuguese: criador (pt) m

• Spanish: criador (es) m
• Swedish: uppfödare (sv) c

heterosexual

type of nuclear reactor

• German: Brüter (de) m, Brutreaktor (de) m

• Swedish: brider (sv) c, bridreaktor (sv) c

person focussed on the rearing of their children

• Latvian: vaislenieks (lv) m

• Portuguese: reprodutor (pt) m

pattern in cellular automation

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• Czech: chovatel m, šlechtitel m
• Dutch: kweker m (1)
• Finnish: kasvattaja (1)
• Japanese: 育雛器 (いくすうき) (1, only animals)
• Vietnamese: người chăn nuôi (1)