Definitions for childbearing

childbearing child·bear·ing

Spelling: [chahyld-bair-ing]
IPA: /ˈtʃaɪldˌbɛər ɪŋ/

Childbearing is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 21 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.

You can make 1460 anagrams from letters in childbearing (abcdeghiilnr).

Definitions for childbearing

noun

  1. the act of producing or bringing forth children.

adjective

  1. capable of, suitable for, or relating to the bearing of a child or of children:

Origin of childbearing

Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at child, bearing

Examples for childbearing

Nancy's recollections of plantation days were colored to a somber hue by overwork, childbearing, poor food and long working hours.

After twenty-five years bearing, and forbearing, and childbearing, you will smile at your gentle-shepherding of to-day.

There are other cases in which marriage is right and childbearing may be wrong.

Some 18 percent of married women have only one child by the end of their childbearing years, double what it was 30 years ago.

Potential recruits are told their main role in the Islamic revolution will be through matrimony and childbearing, not martyrdom.

Directions are given to women in sickness and in childbearing.

As Claire Cain Miller of The New York Times points out, “workplaces could be seen as paying women to put off childbearing.”

The world is turning round and over and back to that one previous historical era when the aversion to childbearing was widespread.

The women in her family die young from childbearing and harsh living.

The author assumes that pair bonds are not only always heterosexual, but always motivated by childbearing decisions.

Word Value for childbearing
Scrable

21

Words with friends

25

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