"mother-to-be" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: mothers-to-be [plural]
Etymology: mother + -to-be Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|mother|to-be}} mother + -to-be Head templates: {{en-noun|mothers-to-be}} mother-to-be (plural mothers-to-be)
  1. A pregnant woman, especially one expecting her first child. Categories (topical): Pregnancy Translations (pregnant woman): amagai (Basque), 準媽媽 (Chinese Mandarin), 准妈妈 (zhǔnmāma) (Chinese Mandarin), tuleva äiti (Finnish), future mère [feminine] (French), werdende Mutter [feminine] (German), kismama (Hungarian), 妊婦 (ninpu) (alt: にんぷ) (Japanese), 孕婦 (yōfu) (alt: ようふ) (Japanese), 임부 (imbu) (Korean), 잉부 (ingbu) (Korean), 임산부 (imsanbu) (Korean), 임신부 (imsinbu) (Korean), bakal ibu (Malay), futura mãe [feminine] (Portuguese), бу́дущая мать (búduščaja matʹ) [feminine] (Russian), бере́менная же́нщина (berémennaja žénščina) [feminine] (Russian), nosečnica [feminine] (Slovene)
    Sense id: en-mother-to-be-en-noun-biEhbtlH Disambiguation of Pregnancy: 73 27 Disambiguation of 'pregnant woman': 89 11
  2. A woman whose partner is pregnant.
    Sense id: en-mother-to-be-en-noun-uSnXRpcV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -to-be, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 29 71 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 15 85 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -to-be: 25 75 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 15 85
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: mother to be Related terms: be mother

Inflected forms

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