childbed
pronunciation
How to pronounce childbed in British English:
UK ['tʃaɪldbed]
How to pronounce childbed in American English:
US ['tʃaɪldˌbed]
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- Noun:
- concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child
Word Origin
- childbed (n.)
- also child-bed, c. 1200, "state of being in labor," from child + bed (n.). In reference to a bed, real or metaphorical, on which something is born, from 1590s.
Example
- 1. Thus , many women died in childbed , and many infants never survived the first few weeks of their lives .