labour pains

1. 1.

   a regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth

   Synonymsbirth pangslabor pains

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Questions about labour pains

What does labour pains mean?

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

What is another word for labour pains?

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

labour 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.