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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unborn
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unborn baby (=not yet born)
▪ Drinking alcohol is bad for your unborn baby.
an unborn child (=a baby that is still inside its mother)
▪ Smoking can damage your unborn child.
an unborn infant
▪ Unborn infants can hear certain sounds while still in the mother’s womb.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
baby
▪ Strokes can even occur in unborn babies and small children.
▪ Abortion is not a painless procedure, it kills a living unborn baby and can scar a woman both emotionally and physically.
▪ Another use is to produce pictures of an unborn baby by reflecting ultrasonic waves off its body.
▪ About 2,000 abortions a year are carried out due to abnormalities found in unborn babies.
▪ How cold she have been so callous as to forget Berenice's unborn baby?
▪ Jake was tied to Janice by their unborn baby.
▪ She was so concerned about her unborn baby, she usually over-reacted to any untoward symptom.
▪ But the fact is that Courtney's dealing the hand of an unborn baby as well as her own.
child
▪ Suddenly Jane was very frightened - for herself, for Mousa, and for her unborn child.
▪ An infected female who becomes pregnant could infect her unborn child.
▪ As she was seven months pregnant at the time, Geraldine feared not only for herself but also for her unborn child.
▪ The third method is maternal transmission between an infected and pregnant woman and her unborn child.
▪ She pressed her stomach with affection for her unborn child.
▪ Happened all the time, women witnessing events that deformed their unborn children.
▪ Damage An unborn child lacks the status to be the subject of a legal duty.
▪ How dare you try to cut off funding for an unborn child.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A 26-year-old woman lost her unborn child when shrapnel tore into her abdomen.
▪ But Zeus rescued her unborn child, sewed it up in his own thigh, and brought it forth afterwards.
▪ During pregnancy her unborn child strips her of nourishment for its own metabolic needs, so she becomes still weaker.
▪ I was still unborn, hammering at the egg, to get out into the air.
▪ If injury is done to an unborn child, no duty is broken.
▪ It is the innocent who are killed, the unborn children.
▪ The report also notes evidence that secondary smoke from other people's cigarette harms unborn children too.
▪ There he is, happy, and I am unborn.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unborn

Unborn \Un*born"\,

  1. Not born; no yet brought into life; being still to appear; future.

    Some unborn sorrow, ripe in fortune's wom


  2. --Shak.

    See future sons, and daughters yet unborn.
    --Pope.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unborn

Old English unboren "not yet born; stillborn," from un- (1) "not" + born. Similar formation in Old Frisian unbern, Dutch ongeboren, Old High German ungiporan, German ungeboren.

Wiktionary
unborn
  1. 1 not yet born; yet to come; future. 2 not yet delivered; still existing in the mother's wom

  2. 3 existing without birth or beginning. n. 1 (context countable English) A single unborn#Adjective offspring at any stage of gestation. 2 (context uncountable English) unborn#Adjective offspring collectively.

WordNet
unborn

adj. not yet brought into existence; "unborn generations" [ant: born]

Wikipedia
Unborn (album)

Unborn is the tenth studio album by American death metal band Six Feet Under. The album was released on March 19, 2013.

Unborn features writing credits from guitarist Jari Laine of Torture Killer and features guest guitarist Ben Savage of Whitechapel. It is Six Feet Under's first album to feature bassist Jeff Hughell, the only one to feature guitarist Ola Englund and the last to feature guitarist Steve Swanson, guitarist Rob Arnold and drummer Kevin Talley. Chris Barnes' nephew Ryley Dipaola performed drums on the vinyl-only bonus track, "Illusions".

Usage examples of "unborn".

Been crushed with her and their unborn son on an icy mountain road by a pulpwood truck with a blown tire?

Mae Su, very much afraid that Mae Su would decide the only way to keep herself and her own children alive would be to abandon the Nansen stateless person and her unborn child.

Egoism in that unborn, unconceived inheritor of the stuff of the family.

The blood and substance of many races, Negro, Polynesian, Mountain Mongol, Desert Nomad, Polyglot Near East, Indian -- races as yet unconceived and unborn, combinations not yet realized pass through your body.

The blood and substance of many races, Negro, Polynesian, Mountain Mongol, Desert Nomad, Polyglot Near East, Indian, races as yet unconceived and unborn, passes through the body.

But most of the time the unborn and indeed mostly still unconceived future colonists of the as yet undiscovered New Earth sleep peacefully in the stasis of their freezer units, unintruded upon by visitors from above.

For a moment he forgot to be amazed and incredulous that he stood in the Twenty-third Century and looked as if through a window into the Thirtieth, talking with the unborn descendant of his yet unconceived son.

Faith of God may yet experience, we pledge ourselves, before the mercy-seat of thy glorious Father, to hand on, unimpaired and undivided, to generations yet unborn, the glory of that tradition of which thou hast been its most brilliant exemplar.

THE SUN-DIAL AT WELLS COLLEGE The shadow by my finger cast Divides the future from the past: Before it, sleeps the unborn hour In darkness, and beyond thy power: Behind its unreturning line, The vanished hour, no longer thine: One hour alone is in thy hands,-- The NOW on which the shadow stands.

Her own condition did not inspire her with any fears, and the anxiety that she experienced for her unborn child was untinctured by bitterness or despair.

She had been on foot, braced against the onslaught of the find legion, when the unborn foal had been raised by the Batavian murderers on the far side of the battlefield and word had passed, like fire in ripe corn, of the sacrilege.

Zane and the unborn Donny and my mother was to have been the cosiest I could make it.

The natural law requires the Doctor to respect the life of the unborn child, thus forbidding craniotomy and abortion.

Her shrunken bones were bundled in soft green furs like the carpeting, only of a lighter, more delicate shade and much fluffier and downier, as if her robe were made from an unborn star-animal of the mammoth breed which had provided the enormous rug.

Her remains, together with the remains of her unborn child, were recovered from Fingerpost Field, Kempley, on 7 June 1994.