"breedings" in the noun sense
1. breeding, genteelness, gentility
elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
2. education, training, breeding
the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior
"a woman of breeding and refinement"
3. breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing
helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
"they debated whether nature or nurture was more important"
4. breeding
the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization
5. reproduction, procreation, breeding, facts of life
the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
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