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[ chahyld-burth ] / ˈtʃaɪldˌbɜrθ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR childbirth ON THESAURUS.COM
nounan act or instance of bringing forth a child; parturition: a difficult childbirth. Origin of childbirthlate Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at child, birth Words nearby childbirthchild-battering, childbearing, childbed, childbed fever, child benefit, childbirth, child bride, childcare, child-directed speech, childe, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for childbirthGender roles exceed the biological circumstances of childbirth and they are, perhaps, much less likely to change. Men Will Someday Have Kids Without Women|Samantha Allen|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST They envisioned warriors lost in battle, and women who died in childbirth, as honored spirits, circling the sun like hummingbirds. New Orleans’ Carnivalesque Day of the Dead|Jason Berry|November 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST No, childbirth is not a contest, but it is “a defining moment” in the lives of many women. Natural Childbirth Is Not a Cult|Brandy Zadrozny|June 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST The court postponed execution of the sentence, to give her time to recover from childbirth and to wean the new baby. In Sudan a Pregnant Woman May Be Hanged for Marrying a Christian|Nina Shea|May 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Hence, her next book was the bestselling The Victorian House: Domestic Life From Childbirth to Deathbed (2003). Pleasant Thoughts of Murder in the Victorian Era|Lucy Scholes|July 29, 2013|DAILY BEAST There was not much to make the great adventure of childbirth endurable. Carnival|Compton Mackenzie For she felt pride, pangs as real as the pangs of childbirth. Step IV|Rosel George Brown There can be no childbirth 380without suffering, and it is the same in spiritual life. The Light Shines in Darkness|Leo Tolstoy Less was charged for children, while women who died in childbirth were buried for nothing but the actual cost of the flag-laying. The Church of Grasmere|Mary L. Armitt The best looking among the peons lose their comeliness after a few years, owing to hard labor, childbirth, and deprivations. Aztec Land|Maturin M. Ballou
British Dictionary definitions for childbirth
nounthe act of giving birth to a childRelated adjective: obstetric Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to childbirthtravail, propagation, labor, delivery, lying-in, confinement, procreation, reproduction, accouchement, parturition, nativity, childbed, blessed event, producing, delivering Medical definitions for childbirthThe American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. |