"maternity" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /məˈtɜː(ɹ)nɪti/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-maternity.wav [Southern-England] Forms: maternities [plural]
Etymology: From French maternité, from Latin māternitās. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fr|maternité}} French maternité, {{uder|en|la|māternitās}} Latin māternitās Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} maternity (countable and uncountable, plural maternities)
  1. The state of being a mother; motherhood. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (state of being a mother; motherhood): майчинство (majčinstvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), analıq (Crimean Tatar), materniteit [feminine] (Dutch), moederschap [neuter] (Dutch), patrineco (Esperanto), äitiys (Finnish), μητρότητα (mitrótita) [feminine] (Greek), matèrnité [feminine] (Norman), macierzyństwo [neuter] (Polish), материнство (materinstvo) [neuter] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-maternity-en-noun-vayiyBHl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 35 32 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 33 35 32 Disambiguation of 'state of being a mother; motherhood': 72 26 2
  2. The state of being pregnant; pregnancy. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (state of being pregnant; pregnancy): бременност (bremennost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), raskaus (Finnish), εγκυμοσύνη (egkymosýni) [feminine] (Greek), matèrnité [feminine] (Norman), ciąża [feminine] (Polish), беременность (beremennostʹ) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-maternity-en-noun-KHOafk2u Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 35 32 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 33 35 32 Disambiguation of 'state of being pregnant; pregnancy': 25 73 2
  3. A ward or department in a hospital in which babies are born. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms (ward): maternity ward Translations (ward or department in a hospital in which babies are born): натология (natologija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), porodnické oddělení [neuter] (Czech), synnytysosasto (Finnish), synnytyssairaala (Finnish), μαιευτήριο (maieftírio) [neuter] (Greek), korban laki-laki (Malay), porodówka [feminine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-maternity-en-noun-jzVxGrsS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 35 32 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 33 35 32 Disambiguation of 'ward': 3 6 91 Disambiguation of 'ward or department in a hospital in which babies are born': 2 2 95
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: maternity bra, maternity dress, maternity hospital, maternity jeans, maternity leave, maternity test, maternity wear, maternitywear

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    }
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  "word": "maternity"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.