Word.ws English Dictionary

childbearer

childbearer noun: one who gives birth to a child.

Noun

childbearer (plural childbearers)

  1. One who gives birth to a child.
    • Nazi ideology, based on a belief in German racial supremacy, discriminated against women as childbearers.2004, Cheris Kramarae, Dale Spender, Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women

Forms of childbearer

pluralchildbearers

Origin of childbearer

From child + bearer.

Questions about childbearer

What does childbearer mean?
Childbearer means one who gives birth to a child.
What part of speech is childbearer?
Childbearer is a noun.
What is the plural of childbearer?
The plural of childbearer is childbearers.

Words near childbearer in the dictionary

  1. child-nature
  2. child-rearing
  3. child-toucher
  4. child-touchers
  5. Child.
  6. childbearer
  7. childbearers
  8. childbearing
  9. childbearings
  10. childbed
  11. childbed fever

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: childbearer (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “childbearer.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/childbearer. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.