giving birth

Questions about giving birth

What does giving birth mean?

giving birth means "the process of giving birth".

What is another word for giving birth?

Close synonyms include parturition, birth, birthing. 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 giving birth a common word?

giving birth 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.