Pregnancy Definition

prĕgnən-sē
pregnancies
noun
pregnancies
The condition, quality, or period of being pregnant.
Webster's New World
An instance of being pregnant.
American Heritage Medicine
The period during which one is pregnant.
The first trimester of pregnancy.
American Heritage Medicine
The quality or condition of being rich in significance, import, or implication.
American Heritage
Creativity; inventiveness.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
maternitygestationgravidityfecundityfertilityproductivityfecundationgerminationparturiencypropagationfertilizationreproductiongravidness
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Other Word Forms of Pregnancy

Noun

Singular:
pregnancy
Plural:
pregnancies

Origin of Pregnancy

  • From pregnant +"Ž -cy.

    From Wiktionary

Pregnancy Sentence Examples

  • She's in the early stages of pregnancy, no more than eight weeks.

  • She shoved the photo back into the envelope and closed the lip, willing herself not to think about the previous pregnancy and its tragic end.

  • She managed to keep her pregnancy secret until an abortion was out of the question and Donnie was born.

  • She paused as if she felt it indecorous to speak of her pregnancy before Pierre, though the gist of the matter lay in that.

  • That's an awesome pregnancy test, by the way.

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Words Starting With

PPRPRE

Words Ending With

YCYNCY

Unscrambles

pregnancy

Words Starting With P and Ending With Y

Starts With P & Ends With YStarts With PR & Ends With YStarts With P & Ends With CY

Word Length

9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With P9 Letter Words Ending With Y