- childbirth
- noun Date: 15th century parturition
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
childbirth
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childbirth — Childbirth and its management have been subject to radically different arguments since the 1960s, with one argument coming from the medical community and a second coming from women. The principal source of controversy has been the issue of… … Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture
Childbirth — Child birth, n. The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
childbirth — index birth (emergence of young) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
childbirth — mid 15c., from CHILD (Cf. child) + BIRTH (Cf. birth) … Etymology dictionary
childbirth — [n] giving birth accouchement, bearing children, blessed event*, childbed, confinement, delivering, delivery, labor, lyingin, nativity, parturience, parturition, procreation, producing, propagation, reproduction, travail, visit from the stork*;… … New thesaurus
childbirth — ► NOUN ▪ the action of giving birth to a child … English terms dictionary
childbirth — [chīld′bʉrth΄] n. the act of giving birth to a child … English World dictionary
Childbirth — Parturition redirects here. For the Voyager episode, see Parturition (Star Trek: Voyager). Childbirth (also called labor, birth, partus or parturition) is the culmination of a human pregnancy or gestation period with the birth of one or more… … Wikipedia
childbirth — n. 1) natural; prepared childbirth 2) in childbirth (she died in childbirth) * * * [ tʃaɪldbɜːθ] prepared childbirth natural in childbirth (she died in childbirth) … Combinatory dictionary
childbirth — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ natural VERB + CHILDBIRTH ▪ die in ▪ His wife died in childbirth in 1928. CHILDBIRTH + NOUN ▪ educator (AmE … Collocations dictionary
childbirth — child|birth [ˈtʃaıldbə:θ US bə:rθ] n [U] the act of having a baby in/during/after childbirth ▪ His wife died in childbirth … Dictionary of contemporary English
