Meaning of pregnant in English

pregnant

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/ˈpreɡ.nənt/ us

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/ˈpreɡ.nənt/

pregnant adjective (FEMALE)

(of a woman and some female animals) having a baby or babies developing inside the womb:

She's five and a half months pregnant.

My mother stopped smoking when she became pregnant.

He believes that men who get (= make) young girls pregnant should be severely punished.

My sister is pregnant with twins.

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Faintness and morning sickness can be signs that you are pregnant.
Heavily pregnant by now, she lowered herself carefully into the chair.
Now six months pregnant, Gina's belly had begun to swell.
She thought she was pregnant, but it turned out to be a false alarm .
I was absolutely enormous when I was pregnant.

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pregnant adjective (MEANING)

filled with meaning or importance that has not yet been expressed or understood:

There followed a pregnant pause in which both knew what the other was thinking but neither knew what to say.

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(Definition of pregnant from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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pregnant

adjective

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/ˈpreɡ·nənt/

pregnant adjective (DEVELOPING YOUNG)

[ not gradable ]

(of female mammals) having young developing in the uterus:

She’s seven months pregnant.

pregnant adjective (HAVING MEANING)

filled with meaning that has not been expressed:

There followed a pregnant pause in which each knew what the other was thinking but neither knew what to say.

pregnancy

noun [ C/U ] us

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/ˈpreɡ·nən·si/

[ U ] She experienced morning sickness during her first months of pregnancy.

(Definition of pregnant from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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This may be helpful when preparing a pregnant patient for transition from coumadin to heparin.

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Perinatal infection was defined as culture-confirmed infection in a pregnant woman or a newborn.

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For ambulatory patients (children or pregnant women), teleconsultations were more costly.

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The other half of the sample were still going steady at the time that the woman discovered she was pregnant.

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Again this provides evidence that more rural than urban women get pregnant soon after marriage.

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Linked with marriage statistics subsequent to the census date, the estimates can provide approximations to marriage rates of pregnant and/or non-pregnant non-married women.

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For the women continuing, there were only eleven (28 %) making their first hospital visit by the time they were 14 weeks pregnant.

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Women with other than trivial complaints were excluded from further participation, as were those who took oestrogens or progestins and those who became pregnant.

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However, these estimates rely heavily on studies involving pregnant women.

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There is also particular attention to categories of patient such as prepubertal children, adolescents, males and pregnant women.

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However, in the pregnant ewe a more progressive infection may establish in the gravid uterus.

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She has referred two pregnant women to us, and we see her most days at the surgery.

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Of the 134 women over the age of 45 years, 21 (15*7 %) had never been pregnant.

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First, women who have never been pregnant are likely to be contraceptive drifters, probably because their assessment of the probability of pregnancy is unrealistic.

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Following that decision, an unprecedented campaign was launched by consumers (pregnant women), interested providers of care, and the mass media (6).

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Translations of pregnant

in Chinese (Traditional)

女性的, 懷孕的，妊娠的, 意義…

Meaning of pregnant in English

pregnant adjective (FEMALE)

pregnant adjective (MEANING)

pregnant | American Dictionary

pregnant adjective (DEVELOPING YOUNG)

pregnant adjective (HAVING MEANING)

pregnancy

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