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Accouchement

Definition: Accouchement

Accouchement

Noun

1. The parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "accouchement" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

Etymology: Accouchement \Ac*couche"ment\, noun. [French expression, from accoucher to be delivered of child, to aid in delivery, Old French acouchier originally to lay down, put to bed, go to bed; Latin ad collocare to lay, put, place. See Collate.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Accouchement

Synonyms: childbearing (n), childbirth (n), vaginal birth (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Accouchement

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Production

Bringing forth; Verb:: parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics; geniture; gestation; (maturation); assimilation; evolution, development, growth; entelechy; fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation; fecundation, impregnation; albumen.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Accouchement

Specialty definitions using "accouchement": Born in the Purple. (references)
Etymologies containing "accouchement": Accoucheur. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Accouchement" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (accouchement, birth, child birth, childbirth, confinement, delivery, lying in).

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Modern Usage: Accouchement

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Accouchement à domicile (1980)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Accouchement

DomainTitle

Books

  • Capitalismes à l'Est : un accouchement difficile (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Accouchement

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Accouchement d'une Femme grecque de l'Archipel. / Maréchal del. Dirigé par Tardieu l'ainé.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Un accouchement dans la Grèce ancienne. / G. Devy.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Accouchement

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Which seems the product of the accouchement of Paris.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Accouchement

"Accouchement" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Accouchement" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Accouchement

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

accouchement

120

accouchement photo

17

accouchement d photo

8

accouchement l

6

accouchement video

4

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4

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2

accouchement d date

2

accouchement vidéo

2

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2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Accouchement

Language Translations for "accouchement"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

pjellje (calving, parturition, procreation), lindje (birth, dawn, delivery, East, generation, genesis, giving birth, labor, labour, nascence, nascency, nativity, Orient, origination, procreation, progeniture, rise). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

â€ÙˆÙ„ادة (birth, confinement, delivery, giving birth, nativity). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

раждане (bearing, birth, childbed, childbirth, confinement, delivery, giving birth, litter, procreation), акуширане. (various references)

   

French

  

accouchement. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

λοχεία (childbed, confinement, in childbed, puerperium). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל×"×" (birth, childbirth, confinement, delivery). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szülés (birth, child birth, childbirth, confinement, deliverance, giving birth, labor, labour, lying in, parturition). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

accouchementay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

reclusão (commitment, confinement, incarnadine, pound, reclusion), prisão (apprehension, arrest, bastille, bond, cage, captivity, choky, confinement, constrained, custody, detention, during, entente, ex, gaol, improbability, jail, jug, limbo, noose, pokey, prison, quad, quod), parto (calving, calving down, child bearing, child birth, childbed, childbirth, confinement, delivery, freshening, lying-in-hospital, partial, parturition, partus, party), limitação (barrier, bond, calaboose, circumscription, confinement, cramp, curb, limitation, narrowness, prison, qualification, reservation, reserve, restraint, restriction, retrenchment, stint). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

naÅŸtere (bearing, birth, childbirth, confinement, deliverance, delivery, genesis, get, lying in, nativity, parentage, parturition, rise, strain), durerile facerii (labor, labour, pain). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

роды (child-bearing, childbed, childbirth, confinement, delivery, labor pains, labour pains, lying in, parturition). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

babinje (confinement, lying in). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

parto (birth, calving, calving down, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, confinement, delivery, freshening, labor, labour, lying in, parthian, parturition, partus). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

loğusalık (childbed, confinement, lying in), doğum (birth, childbearing, delivery, Natal, nativity, obstetric, parturition, puerperal, termination of pregnancy). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

розродженнÑ, роди (birth, child birth, lying in, parturition), пологи (child birth, lying in, parturition). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự đẻ (confinement, parturition). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Accouchement

Derivations

Words beginning with "accouchement": accouchements. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Accouchement" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accroachment. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Accouchement"

Words rhyming with "accouchement" (pronounced 'Ac*couche"ment'): Abasement, Abashment, Abatement, Abetment, Abjurement, Abodement, Aborsement, Abortment, Abridgment, Absentment, Abutment, Accordment, Accroachment, Accrument, Accusement, Acquirement, Acquitment, Adjournment, Adjudgment, Adjustment, Adorement, Adornment, Advancement, Advisement, Affeerment, Afforcement, Affordment, Affrayment, Affreightment, Affrightment, Aggroupment, Agistment, Agreement, Agroupment, Ailment, Alignment, Alinement, Allayment, Allegement, Allignment, Allotment, Allurement, Amassment, Amazement, Amendment, Amercement, Amusement, Annexment, Announcement, Annulment, Anointment, Apartment, Appallment, Appeachment, Appeasement, Appertainment, Appliment, Applotment, Appointment, Appraisement, Apprizement, Approachment, Arraignment, Arrestment, Ascertainment, Aspirement, Assailment, Assentment, Assessment, assignment, Assithment, Assortment, Assuagement, Assythment, Astoundment, Attachment, Attainment, Attaintment, Attendment, Attirement, Attornment, auripigment, Availment, Avengement, Averment, Avisement, Avouchment, Bailment, Baptizement, Basement, Batement, Befriendment, Beguilement, Benightment, Benumbment, Bequeathment, Bereavement, Beseechment, Besetment, Besiegement, Bestowment, Betrayment, Betrothment, Betrustment, Bewailment, Bewitchment, Bewrayment, Bisegment, Blastment, Bodement, Bombardment, Bushment, Butment, Cajolement, Casement, Catchment, Cerement, Cessment, Chatoyment, Cloyment, Coadjustment, Commandment, Commencement, Commitment, Compartment, Compilement, Completement, Complotment, Comportment, Concealment, Condolement, Confinement, Confutement, Congealment, Conjurement, Consignment, Containment, Contentment, Contrivement, Controlment, Convincement, Copartment, Counterrolment, Curtailment, Debarment, Debasement, Debatement, Debauchment, Deboshment, Decampment, Decidement, Declarement, Decorement, Deducement, Defacement, Deferment, Definement, Deforcement, Defraudment, Defrayment, Degradement, Delayment, Denotement, Denouncement, Department, Deplorement, Deportment, Depravement, Deprivement, Derailment, Derangement, Derivement, Desightment, Designment, Despisement, Despoilment, Detachment, Detainment, Determent, Dethronement, Devolvement, Devotement, Diducement, Disagreement, Disannulment, Disappointment, Disarrangement, Disarrayment, Disavowment, Disbandment, Disbarment, Disbursement, Discernment, Discontentment, Diseasement, Disembarkment, Disemboguement, Disemployment, Disenchantment, Disendowment, Disengagement, Disenthrallment, Disgorgement, Disguisement, Disimprovement, Disinterment, Disinthrallment, Dislodgment, Dismastment, Disobligement, Disownment, Dispatchment, Disportment, Disposement, Distillment, Divergement, Divestment, Divinement, Divorcement, Easement, Effacement, Ejectment, Eloignment, Eloinment, Elopement, Embalmment, Embankment, Embarkment, Embasement, Embayment, Embedment, Emboitement, Embossment, Emboyssement, Embracement, Embranchment, Embreathement, Embroilment, Embushment, Empalement, Emplacement, Employment, Enactment, Encampment, Encasement, Encashment, Enchainment, Enchantment, Enclavement, Encroachment, Encrustment, Encystment, Endearment, Endictment, Endowment, Enduement, Endurement, Enfeoffment, Enfoldment, Enforcement, Engagement, Engorgement, Engraffment, Engrailment, Engravement, Engrossment, Engulfment, enhancement, Enjoinment, Enjoyment, Enlacement, Enlargement, Enlistment, Enouncement, Enragement, Enrichment, Enrockment, Enrollment, Enslavement, Enswathement, Entailment, Entassment, Entertainment, Enthrallment, Enthronement, Enticement, Entombment, Entrancement, Entreatment, Entwinement, Enwrapment, Epaulement, Equipment, Erasement, Escapement, Escarpment, Eschewment, Espousement, Estrangement, Estrepement, Evincement, Evolvement, Exaltment, Excitement, Excusement, Exertment, Exhalement, Exhaustment, Explorement, Extolment, Farcement, Feoffment, figment, fitment, Fleshment, Forcement, Foreappointment, Forebodement, Forejudgment, fragment, Freshment, Frightment, fulfillment, garment, Gazement, Imbankment, Imbowment, Imbruement, Imbrutement, Imbuement, Imbursement, Immoment, immurement, Impackment, impairment, Impartment, impeachment, impingement, Imposement, impressment, improvement, Impugnment, Incagement, incasement, Incensement, incitement, Incommodement, Increasement, Incrustment, Indebtment, Indentment, indictment, Inditement, Indorsement, Indowment, inducement, Induement, Indulgement, Infeoffment, Infoldment, infringement, Ingraftment, Ingulfment, Insignment, installment, instillment, Insultment, Intendment, Interchangement, Interlacement, interment, internment, Inthrallment, Intombment, intrenchment, Introducement, Intwinement, Inurement, investment, Invitement, involvement, judgment, jument, Lavement, Ledgment, lodgment, loment, maladjustment, Maltreament, Mandment, Manurement, Mendment, Misadjustment, Misallotment, Misarrangement, Misemployment, Misimprovement, Misjudgment, misplacement, misstatement. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Accouchement

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-c-e-e-h-m-n-o-t-u"

-2 letters: catechumen.

-4 letters: atheneum, coachmen, couchant.

-5 letters: account, acetone, automen, catechu, cementa, chutnee, coenact, conchae, cuneate, machete, manchet, methane, unmacho, unteach.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-c-e-e-h-m-n-o-t-u"
 

+1 letter: accouchements.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Accouchement


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 63 63 6F 75 63 68 65 6D 65 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -.-.    -.-.    ---    ..-    -.-.    ....    .    --    .    -.    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100011 01100011 01101111 01110101 01100011 01101000 01100101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#99 &#99 &#111 &#117 &#99 &#104 &#101 &#109 &#101 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0063 0063 006F 0075 0063 0068 0065 006D 0065 006E 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

356969818769747179718086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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