Childing

Quick meaning: Childing is a noun meaning Able to bear children; fertile; also, pregnant, or in the process of childbirth, or having just given birth to a child.

Meaning

Able to bear children; fertile; also, pregnant, or in the process of childbirth, or having just given birth to a child.

More Meanings

1. Of a flowering plant: producing younger florets around an older flower.
2. present participle and gerund of child
3. (archaic) gerund of child: the act or process of childbearing or childbirth.
4. (obsolete, figuratively) Fruitful; productive.

Example Sentences

The Spring, the Sommer, / The childing Autumne, angry Winter change / Their wonted Liueries; and the mazed worlde, / By their increaſe, now knowes not which is which; […]

I only wish you had arrived this day past. For we had a feast in honor of my wife's childing and her father's visit. Your arrival would have given us even more to be glad for.

[H]e had grown up there and there wedded a wife; but that when she died in childing with her first bairn, and the bairn had not lived, he loathed the place, and came back again into the Dale.

With fire and sword the country round / Was wasted far and wide, / And many a childing mother then, / And new-born baby died; / But things like that, you know, must be / At every famous victory.

Synonyms for childing

Depending on context, synonyms include delivery, parturition, fecund, fruitful, postnatal, postpartal.

Antonyms for childing

Common opposites include barren.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include youngster, baby, girl, tiddler, minor, nipper.

Related Dictionary Tools