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maternity

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "quality or condition of being a mother," from French maternité "motherhood" (15c.), from Medieval Latin maternitatem (nominative maternitas ) "motherhood," from Latin maternus (see maternal ). Used from 1893 as a quasi-adjective in reference to ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus [syn: pregnancy , gestation ] the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother [syn: motherhood ] the quality of having or ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a maternity hospital British English (= for women having babies ) ▪ Many maternity hospitals have been forced to close. maternity clothes (= for women who are having a baby ) maternity leave (= time that a mother ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
maternity \ma*ter"ni*ty\, a. Of or pertaining to childbirth or the period during which a woman is pregnant; as, maternity care; a maternity hospital. For use during pregnancy; as, a maternity outfit.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Maternity is a dramatic three act play that opened January 6, 1915, at the Princess Theatre on Broadway starring Richard Bennett . An English language version of Eugène Brieux 's French play, Maternité (1904), the work was translated by Benjamin F. Blanchard ...

Usage examples of maternity.

After lunch Lady Conant talked to her explicitly of maternity as that is achieved in cottages and farm-houses remote from aid, and of the duty thereto of the mistress of Pardons.

Ministry had refused to issue a permit there had been no further suggestion of maternity, and Rosalie had withdrawn from the public eye to her villa near Corbeil, whence she wrote and sent parcels to the prisoner at frequent intervals.

Nature herself probably was dreaming of that first maternity when she evolved the Surinam toad of the isthmian countries to the south of here, that fantastic toad which bears its babes through the skin of its back.

American Relief Committee the story of this work, and Geoffrey Dodge sent thirty complete layettes, bran-new, four big cases, four gunny-sack bags, full of clothing for men, women, and children, special brands of milk for young mothers in our maternity hospital.

Nomes which worshipped a goddess had no scruples whatever in ascribing to her the part played by Atumu, and in crediting her with the spontaneous maternity of Shu and Tafnuit.

Her maternity outfit was a pale gray washable silk, palazzo pants, a long tunic, with tricky buttons and flaps.

James Bolivar diGriz and I was born a little over seventeen years ago in this very city in the Mother Machree Maternity Hospital for Unemployed Porcuswineherders.

There he was informed that Marcie had been transferred upstairs to the maternity ward and that her doctor was on his way.

Lauren was wearing a new maternity top that, to my eye, had enough gussets sewn into the front to permit her to carry quintuplets to term.

Her anxieties at work she could now see were trival - whether Heaven Arkwright was taking advantage of her absence, whether Heather would actually come back to her desk after maternity leave, was unimportant.

By the time maternity leave was over they had clearly needed her at the office, and so she had started working again, sharing the care of Nick with Charlie and some baby-sitters, and eventually a day-care center in a building in Bethesda, near the Metro stop.

Central Maternity Hospital paediatric wing, no matter what condition he was in.

The crown of wifehood and maternity is purer, more divine, than that of the maiden.

Four maternity nurses and two pediatric nurses hurried about, hooking up the suction, counting lap sponges and packages of sutures, and resetting dials on the newborn resuscitation cart.

The center would cease to exist, the patients would return to her maternity unit, and the hospital would have enough money to keep both departments open.