Word.ws English Dictionary

childbed

/ˈt͡ʃaɪl(d)bɛd/

childbed noun: the final stage of pregnancy; confinement.

Noun

childbed (countable and uncountable, plural childbeds)

  1. (uncountable) The final stage of pregnancy; confinement.
  2. (countable) The bed upon which a baby is born.

childbed meaning in Bengali

childbed in Bengali

গর্ভাবস্থার শেষ পর্যায়, প্রসবকাল

Forms of childbed

pluralchildbeds
alternative formchild-bed
alternative formchild bed

Origin of childbed

From Middle English child bed; equivalent to child + bed.

Words formed from childbed

Questions about childbed

What does childbed mean?
Childbed means the final stage of pregnancy; confinement.
What is childbed in Bengali?
Childbed in Bengali is গর্ভাবস্থার শেষ পর্যায়, প্রসবকাল. See Childbed meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is childbed?
Childbed is a noun.
How do you pronounce childbed?
Childbed is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃaɪl(d)bɛd/.
What is the plural of childbed?
The plural of childbed is childbeds.

Words near childbed in the dictionary

  1. Child.
  2. childbearer
  3. childbearers
  4. childbearing
  5. childbearings
  6. childbed
  7. childbed fever
  8. childbeds
  9. childbirth
  10. childbirths
  11. childbride

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: childbed (page history and authors); childbed (Bengali 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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-childbed.wav.

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