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child birth

child birth is the alternative spelling of childbirth.

Meaning of childbirth

Noun

childbirth (usually uncountable, plural childbirths)

  1. (usually) The fact or action of giving birth to a child, as the culmination of pregnancy; the process by which it happens.
    • Near-synonyms: labour, delivery (the moment of emergence)
    Antonyms:
    death

Forms of child birth

pluralchild births

Questions about child birth

What is child birth the alternative spelling of?
Child birth is the alternative spelling of childbirth.

Words near child birth in the dictionary

  1. child actor
  2. child actors
  3. child bed
  4. child beds
  5. child benefit
  6. child birth
  7. child bride
  8. child brides
  9. child car seat
  10. child car seats
  11. child care

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Adapted from Wiktionary: child birth (page history and authors); childbirth (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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