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sire

noun
/saɪə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Middle English sire, from Old French sire, the nominative singular of seignor; from Latin senior, from senex. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, senior, señor, senyor, signore, and sir. Cognate with French monsieur.

  1. derived from senior
  2. derived from sire
  3. inherited from sire

Definitions

  1. A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively

    A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.

  2. A male animal that has fathered a particular offspring (especially used of domestic…

    A male animal that has fathered a particular offspring (especially used of domestic animals and/or in biological research).

  3. A father

    A father; the head of a family; the husband.

    • He but a Duke, would haue his Sonne a King, / And raiſe his iſſue like a louing Sire.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A creator

      A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.

      • Most musical of mourners, weep again! / Lament anew, Urania!—He died, / Who was the sire of an immortal strain, […]

    2. The vampire who turned another person.

      • There is a toxin in a vampire’s fangs that will infect its victim when the sire drinks deeply and fully of their blood.
      • Ever since Antonio’s escape from his sire in 1942, he had never been tempted to return to the vampire fold.
      • “She is my sire. I cannot defy her as long as she is more powerful than me.”

    3. To father

      To father; to beget.

      • In these travels, my father sired thirteen children in all, four boys and nine girls.

    4. To turn (another person) into a vampire.

      • “Do you think they were wannabes, then? Groupies who found a willing vamp to sire them?”
      • He wondered if she regretted siring him. Or marrying him.
      • I'd never sired another vampire before and I was at a loss of what to do with the rats.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sire. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at sire. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at sire

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA