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accouchement

/əˈkuːʃmənt/

accouchement noun: delivery in childbed; parturition.

Noun

accouchement (countable and uncountable, plural accouchements)

  1. Delivery in childbed; parturition
    • Custom required that the royal family and the whole Court should be present at the accouchement of the Princesses.
    • The prevalence of the reports contradictory to this supposed legitimacy, rendered it necessary to be more minute, than might in common cases have been requisite, in proving the precise time and place of Lady Jane Douglas's alledged accouchement […]1763 June, “An account of the law-suit concerning the succession to the late Duke of Douglas, continued”, in The Scots Magazine, volume 25, page 308

accouchement meaning in Tamil and Kannada

accouchement in Tamil

மகப்பேறு, வன் மகப்பேறு, பிள்ளைப்பேறு, பிரசவம்

accouchement in Kannada

ಹೆರಿಗೆ, ಪ್ರಸವ

Examples of accouchement in a sentence

  • a third was battling with a cat and her brood of kittens for a pair of old boots which she had been pleased to make the seat of her accouchement1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst...
  • A physician was occupied in making an autopsia of a woman dead of puerperal fever, when some one came for him to terminate an accouchement in the town.1856, St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 14, page 153:

Forms of accouchement

pluralaccouchements

Origin of accouchement

Borrowed from French accouchement, from French accoucher (“to be delivered of a child, to aid in delivery”), from Old French acouchier (“to lay down, put to bed, go to bed”), from Latin ad- + collocare (“to lay, put, place”). See collate.

Questions about accouchement

What does accouchement mean?
Accouchement means delivery in childbed; parturition.
What is accouchement in Tamil?
Accouchement in Tamil is மகப்பேறு, வன் மகப்பேறு, பிள்ளைப்பேறு. See Accouchement meaning in Tamil.
How do you use accouchement in a sentence?
a third was battling with a cat and her brood of kittens for a pair of old boots which she had been pleased to make the seat of her accouchement
What part of speech is accouchement?
Accouchement is a noun.
How do you pronounce accouchement?
Accouchement is pronounced /əˈkuːʃmənt/.
What is the plural of accouchement?
The plural of accouchement is accouchements.

Words near accouchement in the dictionary

  1. accostment
  2. accostments
  3. accosts
  4. accouche
  5. accouched
  6. accouchement
  7. accouchements
  8. accouches
  9. accoucheur
  10. accoucheurs
  11. accoucheurship

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Adapted from Wiktionary: accouchement (page history and authors); accouchement (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); accouchement (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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