full term

1. 1.

   the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent

   “a healthy baby born at full term”

   Synonymsterm

   Broaderpoint

   Part ofgestation

Questions about full term

What does full term mean?

full term means "the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent".

What is another word for full term?

Close synonyms include term. 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 full term a common word?

full term is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.