womb
/wuːm/
womb noun: in female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.
Noun
womb (plural wombs)
- In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.
- I danced myself right out the womb / Is it strange to dance so soon?1971, Marc Bolan, “Cosmic Dancer”, in Electric Warrior, performed by T. Rex
- The abdomen or stomach.
- And his hede, hym semed,was enamyled with asure, and his shuldyrs shone as the golde, and his wombe was lyke mayles of a merveylous hew[…].1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich]...
- The stomach of a person or creature.
- A place where something is made or formed.
- The womb of earth the genial seed receives.1697, Virgil, “The Second Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
- The shadows of the future hours rose dark and menacing from the womb of time [...]1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in The Last Man. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC
- Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.
- The centre spike of gold
Which burns deep in the blue-bell's womb.1855, Robert Browning, Popularity
- The centre spike of gold
Verb
womb (third-person singular simple present wombs, present participle wombing, simple past and past participle wombed)
womb meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
womb in Hindi
- uterus
- गर्भ garbh, गर्भाशय garbhāśay, बच्चादानी baccādānī
womb in Tamil
- uterus
- கருப்பை karuppai
womb in Marathi
- uterus
- गर्भाशय garbhāśay
womb in Urdu
- uterus
- رَحِم rahim, گَرْبھ garbh, زَہْدان zahdān
More languagesFewer languages
- womb in Bengali
- জরায়ু joraẏu
- womb in Telugu
- గర్భం garbhaṁ, గర్భాశయము garbhāśayamu
- womb in Malayalam
- ഗർഭപാത്രം gaṟbhapātraṁ
- womb in Kannada
- ಗರ್ಭಕೋಶ garbhakōśa
- womb in Punjabi
- ਬੱਚੇਦਾਨੀ baccedānī
- womb in Gujarati
- ગર્ભાશય garbhāśya
- womb in Odia
- କୋଷ koṣa
- womb in Sanskrit
- गर्भ garbha, योनि yóni
- womb in Assamese
- পেট pet
- womb in Nepali
- पाठेघर pāṭheghar
- womb in Pashto
- رحم rahém, توملنه tumlə́na, زيلان zilãn
- womb in Tagalog
- bahay-bata, sinapupunan, matris, utero
- womb in Arabic
- رَحِم raḥim, بَيْت الْوَلِد bayt al-walid, مَنشَأ
- womb in Malay
- rahim, peranakan, kandung, kandungan
- womb in Indonesian
- rahim
- womb in Thai
- มดลูก mót-lûuk
- womb in Vietnamese
- tử cung, dạ con
- womb in Myanmar
- သားအိမ် sa:im
- Dhivehi
- ރަހިމު rahimu
Examples of womb in a sentence
- You've basically AirBNB'ed your womb; another human being is setting up camp in your innards.
- You'll never be able to unabort the baby that was alive in your womb years ago.
- I find it troubling that Nadya views her womb as a clown car.
Synonyms of womb
Forms of womb
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | wombs |
| alternative form (dialectal) | wame |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | wombs |
| present participle | wombing |
| past participle | wombed |
| past | wombed |
Origin of womb
From Middle English wombe, wambe, from Old English womb, wamb (“belly, stomach; bowels; heart; womb; hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *wambu, from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly, stomach, abdomen”). Cognate with Scots wam, wame (“womb”), Dutch wam (“dewlap of beef; belly of a fish”), German Wamme, Wampe (“paunch, belly”), Danish vom (“belly, paunch, rumen”), Swedish våmb (“belly, stomach, rumen”), Norwegian vom (“rumen”), Icelandic vömb (“belly, abdomen, stomach”), Old Welsh gumbelauc (“womb”), Breton gwamm (“woman, wife”), Sanskrit वपा (vapā́, “the skin or membrane lining the intestines or parts of the viscera, the caul or omentum”). Superseded nonnative Middle English mater, matere (“womb”), and matris, matrice (“womb”) borrowed from Latin māter (“womb”) and Old French matrice (“womb”), respectively.
Words formed from womb
- enwomb
- the womb to the tomb
- womb to tomb
- inwomb
- rent-a-womb
- wandering womb
- womb-brother
- womb-child
- womb envy
- wombless
- womblike
- wombly
- wombman
- wombmate
- womby
Phrases with womb
Words that rhyme with womb
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- gloom
- home
- presume
- whom
- resume
- tomb
- abloom
- legume
- loom
- rheum
- backroom
- boardroom
- combe
- coomb
- entomb
- enwomb
- exhume
- flume
- grume
- kaboom
- Khartoum
- neume
- packing room
- shroom
- sloom
- subsume
- absume
- addoom
- anteroom
- barroom
- bitume
- brume
- chum
- cloom
- cwm
- desume
- fixing room
- foredoom
- fwoom
- glume
- illume
- khoum
- locker room
- raying room
- simoom
- spume
- thoom
- toom
Questions about womb
- What does womb mean?
- Womb means in female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.
- What is womb in Hindi?
- Womb in Hindi is गर्भ (garbh), गर्भाशय (garbhāśay), बच्चादानी (baccādānī). See Womb meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is womb?
- Womb can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce womb?
- Womb is pronounced /wuːm/.
- What is the plural of womb?
- The plural of womb is wombs.
Words near womb in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: womb (page history and authors); କୋଷ (Odia) (page history and authors); পেট (Assamese) (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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