childbearing

See also: child-bearing

English

Etymology

From Middle English childberyng, childbering, chyldberynge, child berynge. By surface analysis, child +‎ bearing.

Noun

childbearing (usually uncountable, plural childbearings)

1. The process of giving birth; pregnancy and parturition.
   • 1865, Great Britain. General Register Office, Annual Report ... of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England and Wales ..., volumes 26–30, page 243:

     From the Swedish returns (1776-1855) it appears that 100 childbearings produced 101.62 children, viz., 2.82 stillborn, 98.80 quickborn; consequently 100 quickborn children imply 101.21 childbearings.

Translations

the process of giving birth

• Georgian: მშობიარობა (mšobiaroba)
• Greek: τεκνοποίηση (el) f (teknopoíisi)
• Middle English: childing, childberyng
• Russian: деторожде́ние (ru) n (detoroždénije)
• Spanish: embarazo (es) m

Adjective

childbearing (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or suitable for childbirth.
   • 1836, Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, England and the English:

     Women in the latter stages of childbearing should not be permitted to attend the toll of the manufactories.

   • 2000, Methodology for deriving ambient water quality criteria for the protection of human health:

     In these cases, fish intake rates specific to females of childbearing age are most appropriate when assessing exposures to developmental toxicants.

2. (of a woman's hips) Attractively wide.
   • 2004, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Stephanie Marston, Chicken Soup to Inspire a Woman's Soul: Stories Celebrating the Wisdom, Fun and Freedom of Midlife‎^[1], page 256:

     Hips that in the old country would be considered good childbearing hips, but in this country are too wide.

Derived terms

• nonchildbearing

 

Translations

Translations

• Greek: τεκνοποιητικός (el) f (teknopoiitikós)

  Ancient: παιδοποιός (paidopoiós)