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pregnant

UK/ˈpɹɛɡnənt/US/ˈpɹɛɡnənt/
adjectiveA2Very common — you will meet it every day · #726 of 15,258leans spoken

Pregnant means carrying a baby that is not born yet. Six months pregnant.

It lasts about forty weeks, counted from a date two weeks before anything happened. A pregnant pause is the same word used of a silence that is full of meaning.

Definitions of pregnant

  1. 1adjectivepregnantCarrying a baby that is not born yet.A2

    “She was pregnant through the whole of that summer.”

pregnant is a state.

Also accepted in games: expecting

Where it comes from

Latin prae, before, and nascī, to be born. Pregnant means, quite exactly, before birth.

  1. Latin

    praegnāns — pregnant

  2. Old French

    preignant

  3. Middle English

    preignant

  4. English, today

    pregnant

Built from

  • prae- · Latin — pre-
  • nascor · Latin — to be born

From Middle English preignant, from Old French preignant, pregnant, also prenant (compare archaic Modern French prégnant), and their source, Latin praegnāns (“pregnant”), probably from prae- (“pre-”) + gnāscī, an archaic form of nascor (“to be born”). Displaced Old English bearnēacen (literally "child-enlarged").

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Body & Health, Family & People

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pregnant in the wild

  • One of the other goals was to make education and medical services available to women while they are pregnant, and when the time comes, have delivery options available.

    Pregnant women's rights

  • A woman who becomes pregnant after a rape may face a decision about whether to have an abortion, to raise the child, or to make an adoption plan.

    Pregnancy from rape

  • When using these terms: Gravida indicates the number of times a female is or has been pregnant, regardless of the pregnancy outcome.

    Gravidity and parity

  • Brooks v Canada Safeway Ltd 1 S.C.R. 1219 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on employer discrimination of pregnant employees.

    Brooks v Canada Safeway Ltd

  • In 1982, Susan Brooks, Patricia Allen, and Patricia Dixon were all part-time cashiers at Safeway who became pregnant.

    Brooks v Canada Safeway Ltd

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the nascor family

pregnantnatural

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