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maternity

(mətɜːʳnɪti)
1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
Maternity is used to describe things relating to the help and medical care given to a woman when she is pregnant and when she gives birth.
Your job will be kept open for your return after maternity leave.
The boy was born at the city's maternity hospital.
...maternity clothes.
2. uncountable noun
Maternity is the state of being a mother.
Morisot had experienced maternity herself.
Synonyms: motherhood, parenthood, motherliness More Synonyms of maternity

maternity in British English

(məˈtɜːnɪtɪ)
noun
1. 
motherhood
2. 
the characteristics associated with motherhood; motherliness
3. (modifier)
relating to pregnant women or women at the time of childbirth
a maternity ward

maternity in American English

(məˈtɜrnəti)
nounWord forms: plural maˈternities
1. 
the state of being a mother; motherhood
2. 
the character or qualities of a mother; motherliness
3. 
a maternity ward in a hospital
adjective
4. 
for a woman when pregnant or around the time of giving birth
maternity dress, maternity leave
5. 
for the care of women giving birth and of newborn babies
a maternity ward
Word origin
Fr maternité < ML maternitas < L maternus, maternal

Examples of 'maternity' in a sentence
maternity

Zerk, as he's called, is temporarily replacing my regular secretary, Julie, who's taking a six-month maternity leave.
Tapply, William G THE DUTCH BLUE ERROR (2005)
Jeanette's maternity gear freakishly ugly, several `frocks' even had crocheted inserts.
Bénédicte Newland and Pascale Smets AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR (2005)
Probably it had been in the dim, distant past when we were still in the maternity ward and she'd had no choice.
Harris, Elizabeth TIME OF THE WOLF (2005)

In other languages
maternity

British English: maternity ADJECTIVE
Maternity is used to describe things relating to the help and medical care given to a woman when she is having a baby.
Your job will be kept open for your return after maternity leave.
  • American English: maternity
  • Brazilian Portuguese: maternal
  • Chinese: 孕妇的
  • European Spanish: de maternidad
  • French: de maternité
  • German: Mutterschafts-
  • Italian: di maternità
  • Japanese: 妊婦の
  • Korean: 임산부를 위한
  • European Portuguese: maternal
  • Latin American Spanish: de maternidad

Chinese translation of 'maternity'

maternity

(məˈtəːnɪtɪ)

n (u)

  1. (= motherhood) 母亲(親)身份 (mǔqīn shēnfèn)

cpd

  1. [clothes, ward, care] 孕产(產)妇(婦) (yùnchǎnfù)
(noun) 
Definition
motherliness
She had experienced maternity herself.
Synonyms
motherhood
parenthood
motherliness

Synonyms of 'maternity'

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