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with child

with child prepositional phrase: pregnant.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (euphemistic) Pregnant.
    • I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
    • [N]othing vvas more frightful to me than his Careſſes, and the Apprehenſions of being vvith Child again by him, vvas ready to throvv me into Fits; […]1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC, page...

with child meaning in Hindi and Malay

with child in Hindi

with child, pregnant
गोद भरी god bharī

with child in Malay

pregnant (euphemistic)
hamil, berbadan dua

Origin of with child

Replaced the earlier Middle English mid childe. Compare Danish and Swedish med barn.

Questions about with child

What does with child mean?
With child means pregnant.
What is with child in Hindi?
With child in Hindi is गोद भरी (god bharī). See With child meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is with child?
With child is a prepositional phrase.

Words near with child in the dictionary

  1. with both eyes open
  2. with both hands
  3. with brass knobs on
  4. with calf
  5. with cause
  6. with child
  7. with childe
  8. with closed doors
  9. with compliments
  10. with dispatch
  11. with due respect

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: with child (page history and authors); गोद भरी (Hindi) (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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