| Main Entry: | childbirth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving birth |
Synonyms: |
accouchement, bearing children, blessed event, childbed, confinement, delivering, delivery, labor, lying-in, nativity, parturience, parturition, procreation, producing, propagation, reproduction, travail, visit from the stork |
| Main Entry: | birth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | becoming alive |
Synonyms: |
act of God, bearing, beginning, birthing, blessed event, childbearing, childbirth, creation, delivery, labor, nascency, natality, nativity, parturition, producing, travail, visit from stork |
Antonyms: |
death |
| Main Entry: | blessed event |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | live birth of a child |
Synonyms: |
birth, birthing, childbirth, delivery, happy event, natality, parturition, visit from the stork |
| Main Entry: | travail |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | struggle |
Synonyms: |
agony, anguish, childbirth, distress, drudgery, effort, exertion, labor, pains, pangs, parturition, stress, suffering, toil, tribulation, woe, work |
| Main Entry: | accouchement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | birth |
Synonyms: |
birthing, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, delivery, labor, lying-in, parturition |
| Main Entry: | birthing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | birth |
Synonyms: |
accouchement, bearing, childbearing, childbirth, delivery, giving birth, labor, lying-in, parturition |
| Main Entry: | childbearing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving birth |
Synonyms: |
accouchement, birthing, childbirth, lying-in, motherhood, parturiency, parturition, pregnancy, travail |
| Main Entry: | lying-in |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | birth |
Synonyms: |
accouchement, act of God, bearing, beginning, birthing, blessed event, childbearing, childbirth, creation, delivery, labor, nascency, natality, nativity, parturition, producing, travail, visit from stork |