breast feeding

1. 1.

   nourishing at the breast

   Synonymsnursing

   Broaderinfant feeding

Questions about breast feeding

What does breast feeding mean?

breast feeding means "nourishing at the breast".

What is another word for breast feeding?

Close synonyms include nursing. 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 breast feeding a common word?

breast feeding 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.