Synonyms for child birth
Most common
delivery child-bearing confinement parturition labor US obstetrics midwifery travail
All synonyms
Noun
delivery, parturition, child-bearing, confinement, labor US, labour UK, obstetrics, midwifery, travail, vaginal birth, child bed, accouchement rare
Definitions
- n. 1
The fact or action of giving birth to a child, as the culmination of pregnancy; the process by which it happens.
Near-synonyms: labour, delivery (the moment of emergence)
Related words
- Other spellings
- child-birth childbirth
Example sentences
- delivery Restaurants are only open for takeout and delivery.
- confinement Bruno spends his birthday in solitary confinement.
- labor There is a labor shortage of computer programmers.
- obstetrics In Japan, only women are entitled to take the national obstetrics exam.
By length
- 5 letters
- labor2
- 6 letters
- labour2
- 7 letters
- travail2
- 8 letters
- delivery4
- 9 letters
- midwifery4
- 10 letters
- obstetrics3
- 11 letters
- confinement3, parturition
- 12 letters
- accouchement
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (labor2 = 2 syllables).