Synonyms for parturition

Most common

birth · child birth · giving birth · birthing · labor US · travail · accouchement

All synonyms

Noun

Definitions

1. n. 1

   The act or process of a mother giving birth.

   Near-synonyms: labour, delivery (the moment of emergence)

Forms

Plural

parturitions → births, birthings, confinements, deliveries…

Example sentences

• birth The work will give birth to a new school of novel.
• birthing Mary was adamant that Tom attend the birthing course with her.
• labor There is a labor shortage of computer programmers.
• travail They finally succeeded after many months of travail.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

5 letters

birth¹, labor²

6 letters

labour²

7 letters

travail²

8 letters

delivery⁴, birthing²

11 letters

confinement³

12 letters

accouchement

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (labor² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français

parturition

Italiano

parto