GIVING BIRTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does giving birth mean? 

• GIVING BIRTH (noun)
  The noun GIVING BIRTH has 1 sense:

1. the process of giving birth

  Familiarity information: GIVING BIRTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GIVING BIRTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of giving birth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

birth; birthing; giving birth; parturition

Hypernyms ("giving birth" is a kind of...):

biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "giving birth"):

brooding; incubation (sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body)

calving (giving birth to a calf)

accouchement; childbearing; childbirth; vaginal birth (the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child)

farrow; farrowing (the production of a litter of pigs)

hatch; hatching (the production of young from an egg)

egg laying; laying (the production of eggs (especially in birds))

childbed; confinement; labor; labour; lying-in; parturiency; travail (concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child)

Holonyms ("giving birth" is a part of...):

reproduction (the process of generating offspring)

 Context examples 

Among women who had high lead levels, the risk of their children being obese or overweight decreased if the women had adequate levels of folate 24 to 72 hours after giving birth.

(New study suggests high lead levels during pregnancy linked to child obesity, National Institutes of Health)