PREGNANT | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of pregnant in English pregnantadjective uk /ˈpreɡ.nənt/ us /ˈpreɡ.nənt/

pregnant adjective (FEMALE)

Add to word list Add to word list B1 (of a woman and some female animals) having a baby or babies developing inside the womb: She's five and a half months pregnant.become pregnant My mother stopped smoking when she became pregnant.get someone pregnant He denied rumours that he'd got (= made) his bandmate pregnant. pregnant with My sister is pregnant with twins.

• Faintness and morning sickness can be signs that you are pregnant.
• Heavily pregnant by now, she lowered herself carefully into the chair.
• Now six months pregnant, Gina's belly had begun to swell.
• She thought she was pregnant, but it turned out to be a false alarm .
• I was absolutely enormous when I was pregnant.

Obstetrics: pregnancy

• amnio
• antenatally
• artificial insemination
• baby brain
• baby bump
• baby weight
• bun
• duff
• ectopic pregnancy
• have a bun in the oven idiom
• maternity
• maternity leave
• parental leave
• parentcraft
• perinatology
• placentation
• post-abortion
• post-conception
• pro-choice
• surrogacy

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pregnant adjective (MEANING)

filled with meaning or importance that has not yet been expressed or understood: pregnant pause There followed a pregnant pause in which both knew what the other was thinking but neither knew what to say. Meaning & significance

• acceptation
• add
• add up to something phrasal verb
• backspin
• be a badge of something idiom
• i.e.
• inauspiciously
• interpretable
• locution
• locutionary
• mean
• meaningfully
• purport
• sense
• significant
• speak
• subtext
• subtextually
• use
• what's with something? idiom

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pregnant | American Dictionary

pregnantadjective us /ˈpreɡ·nənt/

pregnant adjective (DEVELOPING YOUNG)

Add to word list Add to word list [ not gradable ] (of female mammals) having young developing in the uterus: She’s seven months pregnant.

pregnant adjective (HAVING MEANING)

filled with meaning that has not been expressed: There followed a pregnant pause in which each knew what the other was thinking but neither knew what to say.

pregnancy

noun [ C/U ] us /ˈpreɡ·nən·si/ [ U ] She experienced morning sickness during her first months of pregnancy. (Definition of pregnant from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of pregnant

pregnant This may be helpful when preparing a pregnant patient for transition from coumadin to heparin. From the Cambridge English Corpus Perinatal infection was defined as culture-confirmed infection in a pregnant woman or a newborn. From the Cambridge English Corpus For ambulatory patients (children or pregnant women), teleconsultations were more costly. From the Cambridge English Corpus The other half of the sample were still going steady at the time that the woman discovered she was pregnant. From the Cambridge English Corpus Again this provides evidence that more rural than urban women get pregnant soon after marriage. From the Cambridge English Corpus Linked with marriage statistics subsequent to the census date, the estimates can provide approximations to marriage rates of pregnant and/or non-pregnant non-married women. From the Cambridge English Corpus For the women continuing, there were only eleven (28 %) making their first hospital visit by the time they were 14 weeks pregnant. From the Cambridge English Corpus Women with other than trivial complaints were excluded from further participation, as were those who took oestrogens or progestins and those who became pregnant. From the Cambridge English Corpus However, these estimates rely heavily on studies involving pregnant women. From the Cambridge English Corpus There is also particular attention to categories of patient such as prepubertal children, adolescents, males and pregnant women. From the Cambridge English Corpus However, in the pregnant ewe a more progressive infection may establish in the gravid uterus. From the Cambridge English Corpus She has referred two pregnant women to us, and we see her most days at the surgery. From the Cambridge English Corpus Of the 134 women over the age of 45 years, 21 (15*7 %) had never been pregnant. From the Cambridge English Corpus First, women who have never been pregnant are likely to be contraceptive drifters, probably because their assessment of the probability of pregnancy is unrealistic. From the Cambridge English Corpus Following that decision, an unprecedented campaign was launched by consumers (pregnant women), interested providers of care, and the mass media (6). From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of pregnant These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of pregnant?

Translations of pregnant

in Chinese (Traditional) 女性的, 懷孕的，妊娠的, 意義… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 女性的, 怀孕的，妊娠的, 意义… See more in Spanish embarazada, embarazada [feminine, singular]… See more in Portuguese grávida, prenhe (animal)… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian गरोदर… See more 妊娠している, 妊娠（にんしん）している… See more hamile, gebe… See more enceinte, pleine… See more embarassada… See more zwanger… See more (ஒரு பெண் மற்றும் சில பெண் விலங்குகளின்) கருவறைக்குள் வளரும் ஒரு குழந்தை அல்லது குழந்தைகளைப் பெறுதல்… See more (महिला या मादा पशुओं का) गर्भवती… See more ગર્ભવતી… See more gravid… See more gravid, dräktig… See more mengandung… See more schwanger… See more gravid… See more حاملہ… See more вагітна… See more గర్భంతో / స్త్రీల, కొన్ని ఆడ జంతువుల గర్భం లోపల శిశువు లేదా పిల్లలు అభివృద్ధి చెందడం… See more গর্ভবতী, অন্তঃসত্ত্বা… See more těhotný… See more hamil… See more มีครรภ์… See more mang bầu… See more w ciąży, ciężarna… See more 임신한… See more incinta… See more Need a translator?

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    • pregnant (FEMALE)
    • pregnant (MEANING)
• American   
  • Adjective 
    • pregnant (DEVELOPING YOUNG)
    • pregnant (HAVING MEANING)
  • Noun 
    • pregnancy
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