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quickborn

quickborn adjective: born alive; not stillborn.

Adjective

quickborn (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) born alive; not stillborn
    • From the Swedish returns (1776-1855) it appears that 100 childbearings produced 101.62 children, viz., 2.82 stillborn, 98.80 quickborn; consequently 100 quickborn children imply 101.21 childbearings.1865, Great Britain. General Register Office, Annual Report ... of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England and Wales ... (volumes 26–30, page 243)

Origin of quickborn

From quick + born.

Questions about quickborn

What does quickborn mean?
Quickborn means born alive; not stillborn.
What part of speech is quickborn?
Quickborn is an adjective.

Words near quickborn in the dictionary

  1. quick-writes
  2. quickahash
  3. quickahashes
  4. quickbeam
  5. quickbeams
  6. quickborn
  7. quickbread
  8. quickbreads
  9. quickdraw
  10. quickdraws
  11. quickdrop

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