"baby shower" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: baby showers [plural]
Etymology: baby shower (in the sense of being showered with gifts), perhaps influenced by bridal shower. Head templates: {{en-noun}} baby shower (plural baby showers)
  1. A party celebrating the pending or recent birth of a child, involving guests giving gifts (typically babycare items) to the parent(s). Wikipedia link: baby shower Categories (topical): Babies Translations (party): حَفْل قُدُوم المَوْلُود المُنْتَظِر (ḥafl qudūm al-mawlūd al-muntaẓir) [masculine] (Arabic), festa de naixement (Catalan), festa prenatal (Catalan), 嬰兒沐浴 (Chinese Mandarin), 婴儿沐浴 (yīng'ér mùyù) [calque] (Chinese Mandarin), vauvakutsut (Finnish), baby shower (Finnish), fête prénatale [feminine] (French), baby shower [masculine] (French), Babyparty [feminine] (German), Baby Shower [feminine] (German), गोद भराई (god bharāī) (Hindi), babaváró parti (Hungarian), babaköszöntő (Hungarian), ベビーシャワー (bebī shawā) (Japanese), ಸೀಮಂತ (sīmanta) (Kannada), повојница (povojnica) [feminine] (Macedonian), rai bayi (Malay), സീമന്തം (sīmantaṁ) (Malayalam), chá de bebê (Portuguese), бе́би-ша́уэр (bɛ́bi-šáuer) (english: various spellings exist) [US, masculine] (Russian), пра́здник для бу́дущей ма́мы (prázdnik dlja búduščej mámy) [masculine] (Russian), darivanje djeteta [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), baby shower [masculine] (Spanish), fiesta de pañales (Argenitina) [feminine] (Spanish), வளைகாப்பு (vaḷaikāppu) (Tamil), சீமந்தம் (cīmantam) (Tamil), సీమంతం (sīmantaṁ) (Telugu), ಬಯಕ್ಕೆ (bayakke) (Tulu), ಬಯಕೆ (bayake) (Tulu)

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      "sense": "party",
      "word": "rai bayi"
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      "roman": "sīmantaṁ",
      "sense": "party",
      "word": "സീമന്തം"
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      "sense": "party",
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