labor pains

1. 1.

   a regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth

   Synonymsbirth pangslabour pains

   Broaderpang

Questions about labor pains

What does labor pains mean?

labor pains means "a regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth".

What is another word for labor pains?

Close synonyms include birth pangs, 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 labor pains a common word?

labor pains 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.