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womb

womb

145 2.8
The part inside a woman's body where a baby grows before birth
  • noun
  • /wuːm/
translation icon : útero
  • What is it that happens in your body when you're in the womb of your mother?
  • a mother's womb
  • grow in the womb
  • a woman's womb

Macduff was from his mother's womb, untimely ripped.

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Examples

  • And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

  • A baby grows in the womb, which is in the uterus.

  • What starts in the womb does not end in the womb.

  • You cannot be born, pop out of the womb and just make it on your own.

  • Then he touched her womb and he did exactly the same thing.

  • Our mother's womb gave us life after darkness.

  • He said before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.

  • Early experiences while in the womb can influence neural development, and future neural activity is influenced by environmental experiences.

    Academic text (2015)
  • A baby grows in the womb, which is in the uterus.

  • Doctors monitor the development of the fetus in the womb throughout the pregnancy.

Synonyms

uterus
vswomb
104 3.9

A hollow muscular body part in the lower belly where a baby grows during pregnancy

is the common everyday word for the same organ

Idioms

Throughout a person's life from birth to death

Compounds

rent-a-womb
  • Offensive
9.9

A woman carries and gives birth to a baby for another person or couple

Covers a person's whole life from birth to death

Surface Forms

womb singular
wombs plural

Etymology

Womb comes from an old German word wamb that meant 'belly' or 'stomach'. Think of it as the mother's inner belly where the baby grows, which is why womb today means the place in a mother's body where a baby develops before birth.