Adjacent Words

Childbed definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CHILDBED, n. The state of a woman bringing forth a child or being in labor; parturition.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" [syn: parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 13th century the condition of a woman in childbirth

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. archaic = CHILDBIRTH.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Childbed Child"bed, n. The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Parturition. See childbirth.