Synonyms for spawn
spɔnspawn

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. spawnverb

   the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs

2. engender, breed, spawnverb

   call forth

   Synonyms:
   cover, get, mother, father, multiply, sire, bring forth, breed, beget, engender, generate

3. spawnverb

   lay spawn

   "The salmon swims upstream to spawn"

   Synonyms:
   engender, breed

Matched Categories

1. • Cause
   • Lay

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. spawnnoun

   Synonyms:
   eggs (of fish or of frogs), hard roe

2. spawnnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Bot.) mycelium, filaments (from which fungi originate)

3. spawnverb

   Synonyms:
   [In contempt.] generate, produce, bring forth

4. spawnverb

   Synonyms:
   [in contempt.] issue

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. spawnnoun

   Synonyms:
   roe, ova, eggs (of fishes, frogs, etc.), mycelium

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "spawn":

   hobnob, spawning, breed, spawns, reproduce, spawned

How to pronounce spawn?

How to say spawn in sign language?

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

1. [["1579","1"],["1590","2"],["1644","1"],["1645","1"],["1652","1"],["1653","3"],["1657","1"],["1658","9"],["1659","1"],["1669","3"],["1673","1"],["1674","1"],["1678","1"],["1679","1"],["1681","1"],["1683","1"],["1685","1"],["1686","2"],["1688","1"],["1690","2"],["1693","1"],["1696","1"],["1698","2"],["1700","3"],["1701","2"],["1702","1"],["1703","1"],["1704","2"],["1705","2"],["1706","1"],["1707","2"],["1708","1"],["1710","1"],["1711","1"],["1712","2"],["1714","1"],["1716","2"],["1720","6"],["1721","6"],["1722","1"],["1725","19"],["1726","18"],["1727","8"],["1729","2"],["1730","4"],["1731","4"],["1732","4"],["1733","4"],["1735","4"],["1736","6"],["1737","6"],["1738","22"],["1739","9"],["1740","4"],["1741","2"],["1742","11"],["1743","2"],["1744","3"],["1745","5"],["1746","15"],["1747","7"],["1748","7"],["1749","13"],["1750","3"],["1751","9"],["1752","6"],["1753","5"],["1754","23"],["1755","26"],["1756","11"],["1757","33"],["1758","48"],["1759","21"],["1760","32"],["1761","9"],["1762","3"],["1763","17"],["1764","19"],["1765","7"],["1766","79"],["1767","34"],["1768","30"],["1769","23"],["1770","17"],["1771","18"],["1772","19"],["1773","18"],["1774","42"],["1775","11"],["1776","94"],["1777","28"],["1778","21"],["1779","4"],["1780","17"],["1781","13"],["1782","7"],["1783","16"],["1784","60"],["1785","75"],["1786","27"],["1787","111"],["1788","35"],["1789","32"],["1790","55"],["1791","74"],["1792","70"],["1793","52"],["1794","81"],["1795","58"],["1796","58"],["1797","40"],["1798","64"],["1799","76"],["1800","383"],["1801","148"],["1802","156"],["1803","267"],["1804","358"],["1805","152"],["1806","280"],["1807","562"],["1808","416"],["1809","233"],["1810","178"],["1811","222"],["1812","311"],["1813","230"],["1814","318"],["1815","583"],["1816","357"],["1817","148"],["1818","228"],["1819","159"],["1820","243"],["1821","300"],["1822","541"],["1823","374"],["1824","764"],["1825","811"],["1826","333"],["1827","164"],["1828","387"],["1829","401"],["1830","570"],["1831","535"],["1832","428"],["1833","709"],["1834","693"],["1835","603"],["1836","1067"],["1837","369"],["1838","456"],["1839","696"],["1840","442"],["1841","1212"],["1842","427"],["1843","609"],["1844","412"],["1845","610"],["1846","414"],["1847","560"],["1848","738"],["1849","421"],["1850","546"],["1851","708"],["1852","493"],["1853","868"],["1854","1174"],["1855","522"],["1856","684"],["1857","810"],["1858","678"],["1859","829"],["1860","1278"],["1861","632"],["1862","554"],["1863","1367"],["1864","1437"],["1865","2215"],["1866","1112"],["1867","971"],["1868","1149"],["1869","1930"],["1870","999"],["1871","570"],["1872","1203"],["1873","1474"],["1874","1335"],["1875","1347"],["1876","661"],["1877","1530"],["1878","748"],["1879","1111"],["1880","1272"],["1881","913"],["1882","736"],["1883","2125"],["1884","2069"],["1885","1360"],["1886","1081"],["1887","1302"],["1888","1189"],["1889","791"],["1890","824"],["1891","1358"],["1892","1039"],["1893","860"],["1894","527"],["1895","1189"],["1896","1253"],["1897","1210"],["1898","1296"],["1899","1602"],["1900","1276"],["1901","1519"],["1902","1296"],["1903","1823"],["1904","1575"],["1905","1700"],["1906","1081"],["1907","1283"],["1908","1546"],["1909","1069"],["1910","1517"],["1911","1371"],["1912","1184"],["1913","1115"],["1914","1111"],["1915","1013"],["1916","901"],["1917","712"],["1918","702"],["1919","737"],["1920","1276"],["1921","875"],["1922","1387"],["1923","899"],["1924","788"],["1925","1846"],["1926","849"],["1927","926"],["1928","895"],["1929","861"],["1930","1190"],["1931","1307"],["1932","741"],["1933","1148"],["1934","801"],["1935","1058"],["1936","1046"],["1937","1118"],["1938","899"],["1939","920"],["1940","1277"],["1941","1029"],["1942","856"],["1943","643"],["1944","719"],["1945","579"],["1946","1384"],["1947","1112"],["1948","1431"],["1949","1657"],["1950","1962"],["1951","1458"],["1952","1709"],["1953","1644"],["1954","1864"],["1955","1246"],["1956","1737"],["1957","1624"],["1958","1757"],["1959","1409"],["1960","1483"],["1961","2707"],["1962","2942"],["1963","2666"],["1964","2218"],["1965","2513"],["1966","2778"],["1967","2813"],["1968","3204"],["1969","2948"],["1970","3669"],["1971","3485"],["1972","4204"],["1973","3960"],["1974","3951"],["1975","4439"],["1976","3987"],["1977","4102"],["1978","4897"],["1979","4077"],["1980","4141"],["1981","4135"],["1982","4616"],["1983","6467"],["1984","6244"],["1985","5727"],["1986","5903"],["1987","6162"],["1988","7186"],["1989","8119"],["1990","7999"],["1991","9072"],["1992","8303"],["1993","9014"],["1994","8564"],["1995","11229"],["1996","10036"],["1997","9261"],["1998","10519"],["1999","11794"],["2000","14265"],["2001","12210"],["2002","14444"],["2003","15056"],["2004","17282"],["2005","16534"],["2006","16299"],["2007","18065"],["2008","24743"]]

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use spawn in a sentence?

1. Michael Milstein:

   There are some indications that large numbers of sardines did spawn successfully last year, but we won’t know what difference that makes until those juvenile fish survive for a few more years.

2. Inga Saffron:

   The difference being they were catching the sturgeon as they were migrating to spawn, not only did they kill the fish, they killed future generations of fish.

3. Erik Pevernagie:

   When the mind is burdened voluntary silence can spawn release and wellness. It has the power to create spiritness and space for imagination. It can lead to a reviving retreat into a world with new perspectives.

4. Christen Kuikoua:

   Lies create more lies, which spawn even more lies, leading to a tangled web of deceit. So, why lie in the first place, only to perpetuate a cycle of falsehoods.

5. Yaniv Levi:

   We're only at the beginning, it's the first year, and we expect that in the coming years we will be able to spawn 1,000 hatchlings a year.