The difference between Beget and Engender

When used as verbs, beget means to father, whereas engender means to beget (of a man).


check bellow for the other definitions of Beget and Engender

  1. Beget as a verb:

    To father; to sire; to produce (a child).

  2. Beget as a verb:

    To cause; to produce.

  3. Beget as a verb (UK, _, dialectal):

    To happen to; befall.

  4. Beget as a verb:

    To bring forth.

  1. Engender as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).

  2. Engender as a verb (transitive):

    To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).

  3. Engender as a verb (transitive):

    To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.

  4. Engender as a verb (intransitive):

    To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.

  5. Engender as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

    To copulate, to have sex.

  1. Engender as a verb (critical theory):

    To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.