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Accouchement
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Accouchement has 1 sense
- accouchement(n = noun.process) childbearing, childbirth, vaginal birth - the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child; Array has parts: delivery, obstetrical delivery
has particulars: active birth, alternative birth, alternative birthing, natural childbirth
is a kind of birth, birthing, giving birth, parturition
CIDE DICTIONARY
Accouchement, n. [F., fr. accoucher to be delivered of a child, to aid in delivery, OF. acouchier orig. to lay down, put to bed, go to bed; L. ad + collocare to lay, put, place. See Collate.].
Delivery in childbed [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Accouchement, n.
1 childbirth.
2 the period of childbirth.
1 childbirth.
2 the period of childbirth.
Etymology
F f. accoucher act as midwife
ROGET THESAURUS
Accouchement
Production
N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.
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