<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act of a person or other animal that breathes; respiration.</li><li>a single breath.</li><li>the short time required for a single breath.</li><li>a pause, as for breath.</li><li>utterance or words.</li><li>a gentle moving or blowing, as of wind.</li><li>Classical Greek Grammar. the manner of articulating the beginning of a word written with an initial vowel sign, with or without aspiration before the vowel.</li><li>one of the two symbols used to indicate this. Compare rough breathing, smooth breathing.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>