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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The act or process of giving birth; childbirth.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The act of bringing forth or being delivered of young.
  2. n. That which is brought forth; burden; birth.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The act of giving birth; childbirth.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth.
  2. n. obsolete That which is brought forth; a birth.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the process of giving birth

Etymologies

  1. Late Latin parturītiō, parturītiōn-, from Latin parturītus, past participle of parturīre, to be in labor; see parturient. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • yarb ...it was like the turnpike road to paradise after crossing an Arabian desert, when being led by master Diego through the kitchens, I there saw my lord archbishop's supper, and the stew-pans in the last throes of parturition.

    - Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 10 ch. 10 Oct 9, 2008

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