What does accouchement mean?
Accouchement means Delivery in childbed; parturition.
Looking up this word…
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/əˈkuːʃmənt/ · noun
Delivery in childbed; parturition.
Custom required that the royal family and the whole Court should be present at the accouchement of the Princesses.
The prevalence of the reports contradictory to this supposed legitimacy, rendered it necessary to be more minute, than might in common cases have been requisite, in proving the precise time and place of Lady Jane Douglas's alledged accouchement […]
a third was battling with a cat and her brood of kittens for a pair of old boots which she had been pleased to make the seat of her accouchement
A physician was occupied in making an autopsia of a woman dead of puerperal fever, when some one came for him to terminate an accouchement in the town.
Use accouchement when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Accouchement means Delivery in childbed; parturition.
Common synonyms include childbearing, childbirth, vaginal birth.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Custom required that the royal family and the whole Court should be present at the accouchement of the Princesses.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.