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birth control

birth control noun: voluntary control of the number of children conceived, especially by the planned use of contraception.

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Noun

birth control (uncountable)

  1. Voluntary control of the number of children conceived, especially by the planned use of contraception.
    • The latest research, published Wednesday in the medical journal JAMA, analyzed years of health records for thousands of Danish women ages 15 to 49, with an even split between those who started using intrauterine devices that release the hormone levonorgestrel for birth control and those who hadn’t...2024 October 17, Deidre McPhillips, “Some IUDs linked to higher rates of breast cancer, but overall risk remains low”, in CNN
    Synonyms:
    oligogenics
  2. Any technique used to prevent the birth of a child (such as abortion or preventing conception).

birth control meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Kannada

birth control in Hindi

voluntary control of the number of children conceived
जनसंख्या-नियंत्रण jansaṅkhyā-niyantraṇ

birth control in Tamil

குடும்பக் கட்டுபாடு, கருத்தடை

birth control in Marathi

birth control
संततिनियमन santatiniyaman

birth control in Kannada

ಹುಟ್ಟುತಡೆ, ಜನನ ನಿಯಂತ್ರಣ, ಸಂತಾನ ನಿಯಂತ್ರಣ
More languagesFewer languages
birth control in Gujarati
સંતતિનિયમન santtiniyaman
birth control in Tagalog
supil-supling, supil sa panganganak
birth control in Arabic
تَحْدِيد اَلنَّسْل taḥdīd an-nasl

Synonyms of birth control

  • oligogenics

Origin of birth control

Margaret Sanger coined the term "birth control" in 1914, using it in the July 1914 issue of The Woman Rebel, and was criminally indicted for it in August 1914, under the Comstock Law for obscenity in print.

Words formed from birth control

Questions about birth control

What does birth control mean?
Birth control means voluntary control of the number of children conceived, especially by the planned use of contraception.
What is birth control in Hindi?
Birth control in Hindi is जनसंख्या-नियंत्रण (jansaṅkhyā-niyantraṇ). See Birth control meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is birth control?
Birth control is a noun.

Words near birth control in the dictionary

  1. birth certs
  2. birth chair
  3. birth chairs
  4. birth chart
  5. birth charts
  6. birth control
  7. birth control glasses
  8. birth date
  9. birth dates
  10. birth defect
  11. birth defects

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: birth control (page history and authors); birth control (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); संततिनियमन (Marathi) (page history and authors); birth control (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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