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noun
- 1. archaic term for childbirth
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Childbed is a noun that means the condition of a woman in childbirth. Learn more about its synonyms, examples, word history, and related phrases from Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Childbed definition: the circumstance or situation of a woman giving birth to a child; parturition. See examples of CHILDBED used in a sentence.
the act of giving birth to a baby: in childbed The wife probably died in childbed. Fewer examples. She gave birth to a daughter, but died in childbed, and the infant did not outlive her mother by many days. Brown seaweed soup is known as good for a woman in childbed, because it contains a lot of calcium.
noun. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child. synonyms: confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail. see more.
noun. the condition of a woman who is giving birth to a child. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved. Word Frequency. childbed in American English. (ˈtʃaildˌbed) noun. the circumstance or situation of a woman giving birth to a child; parturition. to lie in childbed.
noun. The condition of a woman who is giving birth. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. (uncountable) The final stage of pregnancy; confinement. Wiktionary. (countable) The bed in which a baby is born. Wiktionary. Synonyms: lying-in. travail. confinement. labour. labor. parturiency. Other Word Forms of Childbed. Noun. Singular: childbed.
Define childbed. childbed synonyms, childbed pronunciation, childbed translation, English dictionary definition of childbed. n. The condition of a woman in the process of giving birth.
