Noun

• S: (n) breeding, genteelness, gentility (elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression)
• S: (n) education, training, breeding (the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)) "a woman of breeding and refinement"
• S: (n) 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"
• S: (n) breeding (the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization)
• S: (n) reproduction, procreation, breeding, facts of life (the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring)

Verb

• S: (v) engender, breed, spawn (call forth)
• S: (v) breed, cover (copulate with a female, used especially of horses) "The horse covers the mare"
• S: (v) breed (cause to procreate (animals)) "She breeds dogs"
• S: (v) breed, multiply (have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)) "pandas rarely breed in captivity"

Adjective

• S: (adj) breeding (producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring) "the breeding population"; "retained a few bulls for breeding purposes"