spawn
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
video-games
Etymology: Recorded since 1413; from Middle English spawnen, from Anglo-Norman espaundre, from Old French espandre, from Latin expandere (“stretch out; spread out”, verb). Doublet of expand. Compare also Middle English spalden, spolden, spawden (“to cut open (a fish)”).
Inflected forms:
form: spawns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spawning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spawned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spawned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: spawn
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spawns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A frog spawns thousands of tadpoles every year.
gloss: To generate, bring into being, especially nonmammalian beings in very large numbers.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To bring forth in general.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The web server spawns a new process to handle each client's request.
Weather Underground, a covert organization that spawned countless other would-be revolutionary cadres - the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), the Black Liberation Army, the May 19 Communist Organization each of which
gloss: To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To plant with fungal spawn.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Alewives are anadromous fish: Born in freshwater, they spend their lives in the ocean, returning annually to their birthplaces to spawn.
gloss: To reproduce, especially in large numbers.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To appear, or cause (something or someone) to appear, spontaneously in a game world at a particular place and time.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
examples: We put down torches to stop creepers from spawning.
gloss: To appear, or cause (something or someone) to appear, unexpectedly and seemingly out of nowhere.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
ergative
figuratively
examples: Where did he come from? Bro just spawned in.
Mavs fans really be spawning out of nowhere.
So many virgos have spawned in my life lately
I swear a new vtuber with 250,000 subscribers and wildly transphobic views just spawns every other fucking week
rizz so strong the bf just spawned out of nowhere
bro jus spawns in when the word cuck is mentioned
God spawning in a new streamer and fans for him every week:
McDonalds skips the whole process and just spawns a new building somewhere
gloss: Of a person or non-egglaying animal: to be born.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
figuratively
humorous
intransitive
examples: That kid just spawned and looks like he's already done with life.
I spawned in Turkey. I wasn't given an option on difficulty. It was automatically set on the hardest.
Oh he is entirely too smol! Just spawned and already running a drug ring!! ❤️
dude literally just spawned and already gave up
gloss: The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any germ or seed, even a figurative source.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This dreadful idea is the spawn of a large business conglomerate.
gloss: Any germ or seed, even a figurative source.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
often
uncountable
examples: Even the blithely unselfconscious Homer is more than a little freaked out by West’s private reverie, and encourages his spawn to move slowly away without making eye contact with the crazy man.
gloss: The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of spawn point.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: despawn
spawnable
spawner
spawny
unspawned
respawn
crotch spawn
demonspawn
frogspawn
hellspawn
mushroom spawn
queerspawn
spawn camp
spawn camper
spawn eater
spawnkill
spawnling
spawn point
spawnproof
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: потомък
roman: potomǎk
lang: Bulgarian
word: изчадие
roman: izčadie
lang: Czech
word: výplod
lang: Finnish
word: lähde
lang: Finnish
word: alkulähde
lang: French
word: rejeton
lang: German
word: Ausgeburt
lang: German
word: Ausgeburt des Teufels
lang: Māori
word: paratau
lang: Polish
word: pomiot
lang: Polish
word: nasienie
lang: Russian
word: пото́мство
roman: potómstvo
lang: Russian
word: вы́водок
roman: vývodok
lang: Russian
word: порожде́ние
roman: poroždénije
lang: Russian
word: отро́дье
roman: otródʹje
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: potomak
lang: Turkish
word: nesil
lang: Turkish
word: soy
lang: Turkish
word: zürriyet
lang: Turkish
word: döl