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accoucheur

/ˌæ.kuˈʃɜː/US/ˌæ.kuˈʃɝ/

accoucheur noun: a person, especially a man, who delivers a baby (in childbirth).

Noun

accoucheur (plural accoucheurs)

  1. A person, especially a man, who delivers a baby (in childbirth).
    • And lastly, obstetrical chairs seemed most natural to the accoucheurs of the middle ages.1951 February, Forrest H. Howard, “The Physiologic Position for Delivery”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 2, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 98
    • Family story: on the day of his birth the accoucheur approached his father, the baby wrapped in a cloth.1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 163
    Synonyms:
    midwife, man-midwife

accoucheur meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Arabic and Vietnamese

accoucheur in Tamil

மகப்பேற்று மருத்துவர்

accoucheur in Kannada

ಹೆರಿಗೆಗಾರ

accoucheur in Arabic

person who assists women in childbirth
قَابِل qābil

accoucheur in Vietnamese

person who assists women in childbirth
người đỡ đẻ
More languagesFewer languages
accoucheur in Myanmar
ယောက်ျားလက်သည်

Synonyms of accoucheur

Forms of accoucheur

pluralaccoucheurs

Origin of accoucheur

Attested since 1727. Borrowed from French accoucheur, from accoucher (“to go to childbed, be delivered”), from Old French culcher (“to lie”), from Latin collocō (“to place, put, set in order, assign”), from con- + locō (“to put, place, set”). See accouchement.

Words formed from accoucheur

Questions about accoucheur

What does accoucheur mean?
Accoucheur means a person, especially a man, who delivers a baby (in childbirth).
What is accoucheur in Tamil?
Accoucheur in Tamil is மகப்பேற்று மருத்துவர். See Accoucheur meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is accoucheur?
Accoucheur is a noun.
How do you pronounce accoucheur?
Accoucheur is pronounced /ˌæ.kuˈʃɝ/ (US).
What is the plural of accoucheur?
The plural of accoucheur is accoucheurs.

Words near accoucheur in the dictionary

  1. accouche
  2. accouched
  3. accouchement
  4. accouchements
  5. accouches
  6. accoucheur
  7. accoucheurs
  8. accoucheurship
  9. accoucheuse
  10. accoucheuses
  11. accouching

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Adapted from Wiktionary: accoucheur (page history and authors); accoucheur (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); accoucheur (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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