blessed event

1. 1.

   the live birth of a child

   Synonymshappy event

   Broaderlive birth

   colloquialism

Questions about blessed event

What does blessed event mean?

blessed event means "the live birth of a child".

What is another word for blessed event?

Close synonyms include happy event. 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 blessed event a common word?

blessed event 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.