Definitions for maternity

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maternity ma·ter·ni·ty

Spelling: [muh-tur-ni-tee]

IPA: /məˈtɜr nɪ ti/

Maternity is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 471 anagrams from letters in maternity (aeimnrtty).

Definitions for maternity

noun

1. the state of being a mother; motherhood.
2. motherly quality; motherliness.
3. a section of a hospital devoted to the care of women at childbirth and of their newborn infants.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or for the period in which a woman is pregnant or has just given birth to a child.
2. for mothers during and after childbirth or for the care of their newborn babies:
3. for wear by pregnant women:

Origin of maternity

1605-15; Medieval Latin māternitās, equivalent to Latin mātern(us) (see maternal) + -itās -ity

Examples for maternity

Berman urges pork producers to call them “maternity pens” instead.

“He was talking about getting rid of Savannah two weeks off her maternity leave,” says the NBC News type.

maternity leave and all that stuff is super important to me.

GAZA CITY — A makeshift refugee camp around Shifa Hospital is gradually insinuating itself into the maternity ward.

Frank Corson got the call as he was leaving the maternity ward.

Hence they are of one paternity, though not of one maternity.

Surely you have not yet made many calls on the maternity level.

Earlier this week, a Daily Beast writer criticized Dita Von Teese's range of new 'sexy' maternity bras for women.

In this expectation we set out in search of a maternity Home.

Originally educated for maternity they had to be re-educated for service.