birth pangs

1. 1.

   a regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth

   Synonymslabor painslabour pains

   Broaderpang

Questions about birth pangs

What does birth pangs mean?

birth pangs means "a regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth".

What is another word for birth pangs?

Close synonyms include labor pains, labour pains. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is birth pangs a common word?

birth pangs is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.