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unborns

unborns is the plural of unborn.

Meaning of unborn

Noun

unborn (countable and uncountable, plural unborns)

  1. (countable) A single unborn offspring at any stage of gestation.
    • Whereas the lack of a child brings shame upon Anna and Joachim, the converse holds true for Mary: the existence of an unborn in the womb of a woman who is supposed to be a virgin causes great scandal.2009, Catherine Playoust, Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, “The Leaping Child: Imagining the Unborn in Early Christian Literature”, in Vanessa R. Sasson, Jane Marie Law, editors, Imagining the Fetus: The...
  2. (uncountable) Unborn offspring collectively.
    • Inheritance law allows property to be left to the unborn.

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Questions about unborns

What is unborns the plural of?
Unborns is the plural of unborn.

Words near unborns in the dictionary

  1. unborn
  2. unborn child
  3. unborn children
  4. unborne
  5. unbornness
  6. unborns
  7. unborrowable
  8. unborrowed
  9. unborrowing
  10. unbosom
  11. unbosomed

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