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Definition: Pregnant |
PregnantAdjective1. Carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life. 2. Rich in significance or implication; "a meaning look"; "pregnant with meaning". 3. Filled with or attended with; "words fraught with meaning"; "an incident fraught with danger"; "a silence pregnant with suspense". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pregnant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Pregnancy is the process by which a mammalian female carries a live offspring from conception until it develops to the point where the offspring is capable of living outside the womb. It starts from the fertilization of an embryo (conception) to form a zygote, and ends in birth, miscarriage or abortion.
In humans, pregnancy takes approximately 40 weeks between the time of the last menstrual cycle and delivery. It is divided into three trimesters of three months duration each. The first trimester carries the highest risk of miscarriage, the unintentional abortion of a fetus. It is often a result of defects in the fetus, its parent, or damage caused after conception.
Fertilization
The first step of pregnancy usually begins with sexual intercourse where male gametes or sperm are deposited into the vagina. The semen produced by the male contains not only sperm cells but also sugars, proteins and other substances to help keep the sperm viable. Human sperm generally survive for about 48 hours in the female body. Sperm have a long flagellum, which they use to swim; they are the only human cells with this property. These cells are haploid, having divided by meiosis from germ cells in the testes and possessing only one half of the chromosomes of ordinary body cells. Typically, between 100 million and 300 million sperm are released in one ejaculation.
Ova, or oocytes, are the haploid female egg cells, and their role is to fuse with one sperm cell to form a fertilized zygote which will then grow in the uterus to form a developing fetus. These cells are produced by meiosis in the ovaries and stay in a state of suspended animation until activated by hormonal changes in the woman's menstrual cycle. Typically, only one ovum is released during each menstrual cycle.
At ovulation, the fimbriae at the end of the fallopian tube move over the ovary to catch the released ovum. If fertilization takes place, the sperm usually meet the ovum in the fallopian tube, requiring the sperm cells to swim from the upper vagina through the cervix and across the length of the uterus before reaching the fallopian tube—a considerable distance compared to the size of the sperm cell. Once there, the successful sperm swim towards the ovum and each attempts to fertilize it. Each sperm cell contains a small pouch of enzymes that it uses to break through the outer layer of the ovum in order to fuse with it. This can take up to twenty minutes. Once the ovum fuses with a single sperm cell, its cell membrane changes, preventing fusion with other sperm. The fusion of the ovum's and sperm's nuclei to form a diploid cell completes the first stage of pregnancy.
Alternative methods of fertilization, including artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization, are sometimes used in cases of infertility and by single women and lesbian couples.
Development
(see also Trimester)
Pre-implantation
At this point, there exists a single totipotent cell with the potential to create an entire human being. Mitotic cell division is the next process to occur, where each cell doubles to produce another diploid cell. The zygote divides to produce two smaller cells, called blastomeres, roughly every 20 hours. These cells get progressively smaller until about 4 divisions have taken place resulting in 16 individual cells. This cluster of 16 cells, called a morula, leaves the fallopian tube and makes its way to the uterus.
Ectopic pregnancy
Occasionally, the developing zygote will implant somewhere other than the uterus; this is called ectopic pregnancy. The most common location for ectopic pregnancies is in a fallopian tube, but they can arise in any tissue that the fertilized zygote can reach (essentially anywhere within the abdomen). Since only the uterus is suited to the development of the embryo, ectopic pregnancy usually results in complications when the developing embryo grows too big for the blood supply of the ectopic location to sustain it any more. When this happens, the ectopic pregnancy is at risk of rupture, potentially resulting in serious blood loss. An ectopic pregnancy can thus be a life-threatening condition.
Post-implantation
A blastocele is a small cavity on the center of the cells, and the developing cells will grow around this. There will be a flat layer of cells on the exterior of this cavity, and the zona pellucida will remain the same size as before. Cells are growing increasingly smaller to fit in. This new structure with a cavity in the center and the developing cells around it is known as a blastocyst. The presence of the blastocyst means that two types of cells are forming, inner cell mass growing on the interior of the blastocele and cells growing on the exterior of it. In 24 to 48 hours, the blastocyst's barrier, the zona pellucida breaches. The cells on the exterior of the blastocyst begin excreting an enzyme which erodes epithelial uterine lining and creates a site for implantation. The blastocyst also secretes a hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin which in turn, stimulates the corpus luteum in the mother's ovary to continue producing progesterone, which acts to maintain the lining of the uterus so that the embryo will continue to be nourished. The glands in the lining of the uterus will swell in response to the blastocyst, and capillaries will be stimulated to grow in that region. This allows the blastocyst to receive vital nutrients from the mother.Pregnancy tests detect the presence of human chorionic gonadotropin.
Placental Circulation System
The cells surrounding the blastocyst now destroy cells in the uterine lining, forming small pools of blood which in turn stimulates the production of capillaries. This is the first stage in the growth of the placenta. The inner cell mass of the blastocyst divides rapidly, forming two layers. The top layer will become the embryo and cells from there will be used in the amniotic cavity. At the same time, the bottom layer will form a small sac. (If the cells begin developing in an abnormal position, an ectopic pregnancy may also occur at this point.) Several days later, chorionic villi in the forming placenta anchor the implantation site to the uterus. A system of blood and blood vessels now develops at the point of the newly forming placenta, growing near the implantation site. The small sac inside the blastocyst begins producing red blood cells. For the next 24 hours, connective tissue will develop between the developing placenta and the growing fetus. This will later develop into the umbilical cord.
Cellular Differentiation
Following this, a narrow line of cells appears on the surface on the embryo. Its growth shows the fetus will undergo gastrulation, in which the three layers of the fetus, the ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm, will develop. The narrow line of cells begin to form the audoderm and mesoderm. The ectoderm begins to grow rapidly as a result of chemicals being produced by the mesoderm. These three layers will give rise to all the various types of tissue in the body. The endoderm will later form the lining of the tongue, digestive tract, lungs, bladder and several glands. The mesoderm will form muscle, bone and lymph tissue, as well as the interior of the lungs, heart, reproductive and excretory systems. It will also give rise to the spleen, and will be used in the production of blood cells. The ectoderm will form the skin, nails, hair, cornea, lining of the internal and external ear, nose, sinuses, mouth, anus, teeth, pituitary gland, mammary glands, and all parts of the nervous system.Approximately 18 days after fertilization, the embryo has divided to form much of the tissue it will need. It is shaped like a pear, where the head region is larger than the tail. The embryo's nervous system is one of the first organs to grow. It begins growing in a concave area known as the neural groove. The blood system continues to grow networks which allow the blood to flow around the embryo. Blood cells are already being produced and are flowing through these developing networks. Secondary blood vessels also begin to develop around the placenta, to supply it with more nutrients. Blood cells will begin to form on the sac in the center of the embryo, as well as cells which will begin to differentiate into blood vessels. Endocardial cells begin to form the musculature which will become the heart.
At about 24 days past fertilization, there is a primitive S-shaped tubule heart which begins beating. The flow of fluids throughout the embryo will begin at this stage.
Organ Development
Delivery
See also:
For topics following on from a successful pregnancy and birth, see:
- Sex
- Contraception
- IVF
- Cell Division
- Ectopic Pregnancy
- Abortion
- Progesterone
- Oxytocin
- Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG)
- Teenage pregnancy
- Morning sickness
- Pregnancy in science fiction
- Postnatal development
- Breastfeeding
- Child development
External link
- The visible embryo
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pregnancy."
Synonyms: PregnantSynonyms: fraught(p) (adj), meaning(a) (adj), significant (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: nonpregnant (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Conciseness | Adjective: concise, brief, short, terse,close; to the point, exact; neat, compact; compressed, condensed, pointed; laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary; pregnant; compendious; (compendium); succinct; elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp; sententious. |
Destiny | Adjective: impending; Verb: destined; about to be, happen; coming, in store, to come, going to happen, instant, at hand, near; near, close at hand; over hanging, hanging over one's head, imminent; brewing, preparing, forthcoming; int he wind, on the cards, in reserve; that will, is to be; in prospect; (expected); looming in the distance, horizon, future; unborn, in embryo; int he womb of time, futurity; pregnant; (producing). |
Imagination | Adjective: meaning; Verb: expressive, suggestive, allusive; significant, significative, significatory; pithy; full of meaning, pregnant with meaning. |
Importance | Significant, telling, trenchant, emphatic, pregnant; tanti. |
Prediction | Ominous, portentous, augurous, augurial, augural; auspicial, auspicious; prescious, monitory, extispicious, premonitory, significant of, pregnant with, bit with the fate of. |
Production | Adjective: produced, producing; Verb: productive of; prolific; creative; formative, genetic, genial, genital; pregnant; enceinte, big with, fraught with; in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of; puerperal, puerperous. |
Productiveness | Adjective: productive, prolific; teeming, teemful; fertile, fruitful, frugiferous, fruit-bearing; fecund, luxuriant; pregnant, uberous. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Like when I accused you of lying, or when I accused you of dating Joe Junior, or when I thought you were pregnant and announced it to all your friends (While You Were Sleeping; writing credit: Daniel G. Sullivan and Fredric LeBow.) She's pregnant. (Die Hard; writing credit: Jeb Stuart) A situation pregnant with possibilities and all you can think of is everybody go to sleep (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz) I enjoy gay people, but I just have a slight problem with my pregnant sister being in love with one of them (The Object of My Affection; writing credit: Wendy Wasserstein. Based on the novel by Stephen McCauley.) I brought it home, defrosted it, inserted it, andand I'm pregnant. (Look Who's Talking; writing credit: Amy Heckerling) | |
Lyrics | Mary got pregnant from a kid named Tom that said he was in love (What It's Like; performing artist: Everlast) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Rosemary Is Pregnant Again (1969) Miss Jessica Is Pregnant (1967) I'm Pregnant Too! A Pregnancy Guide for Men Honey (1999) Almost Pregnant (1992) The Pregnant Babysitter (1986) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Shows 1962 photo of baby born with an extra appendage connected to the foot caused by the pregnant mother taking the drug Thalidomide. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Pregnant woman eating strawberries, grapes, orange slices, and apple. Credit: CDC. |
 | A pregnant woman with syphilis can pass T. pallidum to her unborn child, who may be born with serious mental and physical problems as a result of this infection. When a newborn is affected it is known as “Congenital Syphilis”. Credit: CDC. |  | The main chamber of HELGOLAND was known as the "pregnant elephant.". Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | Pregnant mother at a VA WIC clinic. Credit: USDA. |  | [Anatomical view of pregnant woman]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Three midwives attending to a pregnant woman]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Danish poster showing the profile of a pregnant woman and a child possibly feeling for fetal movement]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Bed for pregnant women]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Pregnant woman, the daughter of a migrant family. Imperial Valley, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Pregnant Woman and Child" by Shawn Sutherland Commentary: "A sepia-tone pregnant mother with child." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Desiderius Erasmus | Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. [Prayer To A Pregnant Woman] |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Roe v. Wade | 1973 | For the stage prior to approximately the end of the first trimester, the abortion decision and its effectuation must be left to the medical judgment of the pregnant woman's attending physician. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | For Rose of Sharon was pregnant and careful |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The atoms have already learned this law, and are pregnant by it. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | You might be pregnant. (references) | |
The person is pregnant or has diabetes. (references) | ||
Use contraception if you do not want to become pregnant. (references) | ||
Children | South Africa | There are a number of governmental social welfare programs for children, known as "Presidential Initiatives," including free health care for pregnant women and children under 6 years of age and school meal programs for primary school children. (references) |
South Africa | In December a Pretoria High Court judge ordered that the drug Nevirapine be provided to HIV-positive pregnant women in state hospitals. (references) | |
Ethiopia | The maternal mortality rate is extremely high due, in part, to food taboos for pregnant women, poverty, early marriage, and birth complications related to FGM, especially infibulation. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Venezuela | Nine individuals from the Colombian group were hospitalized, including two pregnant women and six children in the town of Machiques. (references) |
Belarus | A second young woman, who was pregnant, was released nearly unconscious. (references) | |
Switzerland | Some 33,000 Kosovars accepted this offer, which ended in May 2000. The Federal Government granted a delay in departure in 1,962 cases that involved individual hardship (including families with children in school, members of ethnic minorities, the elderly, the sick, single mothers, and pregnant women). (references) | |
Economic History | Armenia | Female employees are granted privileges that include prohibitions against: hard and hazardous jobs, night shift-work (in certain cases), overtime, working on holidays, and business trips for women with children under the age of 2. The provisions also grant partially paid maternity leave from 140 days to one year with a further year of unpaid leave guaranteed; companies are also prohibited from firing pregnant women and women with children under the age of 18 months. (references) |
Brazil | Medical exams and tests for pregnant women and newborn babies must also have full coverage. (references) | |
Human Rights | China | Minors and pregnant women are expressly exempt from the death sentence, and only those theft cases involving banks or museums warrant capital punishment. (references) |
Minorities | Estonia | In April 2000, the State Assembly approved an amendment to the law on aliens, which provided that the annual immigration quota will not be applied to non-Estonian spouses of Estonian citizens if the spouses have a common child up to 15 years of age or if the female spouse is more than 12 weeks pregnant. (references) |
Travel | Bolivia | It is available only by prescription in the U.S. Pregnant women and nursing mothers cannot take Diamox. (references) |
Women | Yemen | Her former husband must continue to support her for another 3 months, since she may not remarry until she proves that she is not pregnant. (references) |
Worker Rights | El Salvador | One pregnant woman refused to accept severance pay. (references) |
Indonesia | Kirsty Sword-Gusmao, the wife of East Timorese independence leader Xanana Gusmao, reported to the international press in November 2000, that 33 pregnant East Timorese women, who had returned to East Timor, claimed that they were abducted and forced to serve as sex slaves for the TNI in West Timor. (references) | |
Guatemala | The report alleged that maquilas often obligate women to reveal whether they are pregnant as a condition of employment, either through questions on job applications, in interviews, or through physical examinations. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OUT-:OF:-:DOORS:, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets. I climbed to the top of a mountain one day To see the sun setting in glory, And I thought, as I looked at his vanishing ray, Of a perfectly splendid story. 'Twas about an old man and the ass he bestrode Till the strength of the beast was o'ertested; Then the man would carry him miles on the road Till Neddy was pretty well rested. The moon rising solemnly over the crest Of the hills to the east of my station Displayed her broad disk to the darkening west Like a visible new creation. And I thought of a joke (and I laughed till I cried) Of an idle young woman who tarried About a church-door for a look at the bride, Although 'twas herself that was married. To poets all Nature is pregnant with grand Ideas -- with thought and emotion. I pity the dunces who don't understand The speech of earth, heaven and ocean. Stromboli Smith |
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Jodie Foster | I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes. Especially when you're pregnant, you need your sleep. |
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| "Pregnant" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pregnant" is used about 2,213 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2,213 | 3,971 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "pregnant": abortion by the pregnant woman ♦ be pregnant ♦ become pregnant ♦ fall pregnant ♦ get smb. pregnant ♦ make pregnant ♦ miscarriage procured by the pregnant woman ♦ negative pregnant ♦ pregnant chad ♦ pregnant construction ♦ pregnant employee ♦ pregnant with ♦ pregnant with meaning ♦ pregnant woman. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "pregnant": non-pregnant. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
pregnant | 13,652 | pregnant gallery | 183 |
pregnant sex | 3,054 | trying to get pregnant | 172 |
get pregnant | 944 | sign of being pregnant | 171 |
pregnant belly | 923 | pregnant slut | 168 |
pregnant woman | 903 | naked pregnant woman | 167 |
pregnant picture | 774 | pregnant with twin | 164 |
pregnant nude | 736 | pregnant sign | 151 |
pregnant teen | 544 | if pregnant tell | 146 |
pregnant porn | 400 | pregnant belly photo | 136 |
pregnant photo | 324 | pregnant symptom | 123 |
picture of pregnant woman | 280 | pregnant belly gallery | 120 |
pregnant woman nude | 267 | best time to get pregnant | 115 |
pregnant cat | 249 | photo pregnant woman | 113 |
pregnant belly picture | 231 | naked pregnant | 112 |
pregnant pussy | 231 | pregnant bikini | 108 |
pregnant dog | 230 | pregnant celebrity | 106 |
pregnant lesbian | 218 | hudson kate pregnant | 105 |
pregnant babe | 209 | tip for getting pregnant | 104 |
pregnant girl | 209 | free pregnant pic | 102 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "pregnant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | swanger (with young), in die ander tyd (with young), gedek (with young), dragtig (with young), bevrug (with young), beset (busy, engaged, occupied, taken, with young). (various references) | |
Albanian | shtatzënë (enceinte, preggers), me barrë (enceinte, preggers), kuptimplotë (meaningful, significant), i plotë (all out, big, broad, clear, close, complete, comprehensive, crowded, dead, direct, dyed in the wool, entire, flush, fraught, full, gross, integral, out and out, outright, overall, perfect, plenary, Plumb, plummy, radical, round, sheer, solid, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unabbreviated, uncut, unquestioning, utter, whole), e mbarsur (impregnate, impregnated). (various references) | |
Arabic | مفعم ب, مثقل ب, ولود (fecund, fertile, prolific), حافل بالمعاني, حامل (bearer, big with child, carriage, expectant, gravid, incumbent, support, trestle), حبلي (big, enceinte, gravid, quick), خصب (fat, fecund, fertile, fertility, fruitful, lush, prodigal, prodigality, productive, profuse, prolific, rich). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съдържателен (meaningful, meaty, pithy, sapid), резултатен (efficacious, efficient, operative, useful), многозначителен (knowing, meaningful, telling, thoughtful), жив (above ground, active, agile, alert, alive, animate, breezy, brisk, cheerful, dashing, high-colored, high-coloured, jaunty, jazz, jazzy, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, mobile, nervous, nimble, organic, peppy, perky, pert, picturesque, quick, racy, rattling, round, saucy, sharp, skittish, snappy, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, swinging, vital, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, whippy, zappy, zippy), бременна (enceinte, heavy, impregnate, up the spout, with young), богат (abounding, bounteous, fat, full, generous, halcyon, heavy, high, lordly, luxuriant, mellow, moneyed, opulent, plenteous, podded, princely, prodigal, profuse, prolific, rank, rich, silk stocking, slap up, substantial, wanton, wealthy, well heeled, well off, well-fixed), плодовит (copious, exuberant, fecund, fertile, fruitful, productive, prolific, reproductive, voluminous). (various references) | |
Chinese | 怀孕 (impregnate, impregnated, Impregnating, Pregnancy), 孕 , 大肚子 , 娠 . (various references) | |
Czech | plodný (copious, fertile, fruitful, procreative, productive, prolific, rich), plný (bony, crowded, filled, full, full(of), fulsome, packed, plenary, replete, round, solid), vynalézavý (ingenious, inventive, resourceful), tìhotná (enceinte, with child), gravidní. (various references) | |
Danish | svanger (with young). (various references) | |
Dutch | drachtig (with young), zwanger (with young). (various references) | |
Esperanto | graveda. (various references) | |
Faeroese | við barn (with young). (various references) | |
Finnish | tiine (big with young, with calf, with foal). (various references) | |
French | pleine, enceinte (precinct). (various references) | |
Frisian | swier (burdensome, heavy, onerous, with young), drachtich (with young). (various references) | |
German | trächtig (heavy, laden, meaningful, significant, with young), bedeutungsvoll (meaningful, momentous, significant, significantly), schwanger (gestating, pregnantly, with young). (various references) | |
Greek | κυοφορούσα (in-calf), έγκυοσ, έγκυος, έγγυος (in-calf), σημαίνων (influential), βαρύσ (beefy, cumbrous, heavy, hefty, labored, laboured, leaden, logy, lumpish, massive, onerous, ponderous, saturnine, stodgy, waterlogged, weighty), πλήρησ (absolute, clear, complete, flush, pregnant with, replete, stark, straight out, thoro, thorough, thoroughgoing, unabridged). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעוברת (impregnate), הרה (expectant, expecting, in the family way), בהריון (expectant, with child). (various references) | |
Hungarian | terhes (arduous, big with child, burdensome, cumbersome, cumbrous, enceinte, encumbrance, expecting, gravid, impregnate, inconvenient, irksome, onerous, oppressive, to be big with child, to be in the family way, to be pillowed, to be quick with child, to look pillowed, with calf, with young), hasas (abdominous, bellyflop, big with young, gutty, paunchy, swag-bellied, tubby, with young), állapotos (big with child, to be bearing a child, to be in the family way, to be quick with child, to be with child, with child), vemhes (in lamb, with lamb, with young), sokatmondó (meaningful, suggestive, telling, telling look), jelentős (heavy, important, leading, purposeful, remarkable, significant), bővelkedő (exuberant, flush, plenteous, prolific, prolifical, replete, teeming). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengandung (contain), hamil (gravid), bunting (full), buncit (distended, recent). (various references) | |
Italian | incinta (with young), gravida (in-calf). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 身重 , 身持ち (behavior, conduct), 多産 (reproductive), 含蓄の有る (significant, suggestive). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たさん (reproductive), がんちくのある (significant, suggestive), みおも, みもち (behavior, conduct). (various references) | |
Korean | 임신 (impregnation, Pregnancy). (various references) | |
Manx | trome (bold, burdensome, close, close oppressive, crippling, crippling burden, deep, deep-drawn, dense, dense of smoke, difficult, emphatic, expectant, expecting, grave, grievous, gruelling, hard, harsh, heavy, heavyweight, high pressure, intense, laborious, onerous, ponderous, rough of sea, severe, sledge-hammer, steep, stodgy, substantial, sweated, wearying, weighty, with child), torragh (expectant, expecting, gravid, heavy, with child, with young), togherys (reel, spool, wind, wind as clock, winding), thunnag 'syn oghe, lugh 'sy chreeagh, corrym (adequate, amends, candid, equal, equitable, equivalent, even, exact, flat, flat rate of pay, flush, impartial, justice, level, par, revenge, satisfaction, tally, tantamount, treatment). (various references) | |
Papiamen | priñá (with young), na estado (with young), ku barika (with young), ku bariga (with young), dek (with young). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | egnantpray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | grávida (big, with young). (various references) | |
Romanian | prolific (copious, fertile, fruitful, prolific, voluminous), rodnic (fertile, fruitful, plenteous, plentiful, productive, prolific), gravidã (expectant, gravid, impregnate, in an interesting condition), de semnificaţie, cu pui (with young), însãrcinatã (big with child, gravid, impregnate, in a family way, with child). (various references) | |
Russian | беременная (enceinte, expectant, gravid, impregnate, parturient, with child, with young). (various references) | |
Scottish | trom (burdensome, difficult, hard, heavy, onerous, oppressive, sad, sleepy), torrach (fruitful). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | trudna (child bearing), rodan (fertile, native, teeming, yielding), bremenit (fraught). (various references) | |
Spanish | preñada (big with young, with calf, with young), en estado (with young), embarazada (big bellied, big with child, pregnantly, quick with child, with child). (various references) | |
Swedish | havande (with young), innehållsrik (extensive, inclusive), gravid (expectant, expecting, gravid, impregnate), dräktig (in calf, with calf, with young). (various references) | |
Turkish | yaratıcı (architect, author, builder, composer, creative, creator, father, fertile, imaginative, ingenious, inspired, inventive, inventor, originative, originator, procreative, procreator, productive, worker), verimli (abundant, bonanza, copious, effective, efficient, exuberant, fat, fecund, fertile, fruitful, generous, grateful, high speed, loamy, procreant, procreative, producing, productive, prolific, rank, rich, yielding), manâlı (meaning, significant), hamile (big with child, expectant, expecting, gone, gravid, heavy, heavy with child, heavy with young, impregnate, in pod, in pup, in the family way, preggers, with child, with young), gebe (big with child, expectant, expecting, gravid, heavy with child, heavy with young, impregnate, in foal, in lamb, in pod, in pup, in the family way, preggers, with child, with foal, with lamb, with young), anlamlı (eloquent, expressive, meaning, meaningful, pointed, purposeful, revealing, rich, significant, significative). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gцwreli. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тільна, вагітна (big with child, fraught, gravid, impregnate, parturient, quick with child), змістовній, жеребна, багатий на. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | giàu trí sáng tạo, dồi dào tư tưởng ý tứ có kết quả phong phú, có thai (gravid), có mang thai, có chửa giàu trí tưởng tượng. (various references) | |
Welsh | cyfeb, braisg (big, gross, large, thick), beichiog. (various references) | |
Yucatec | yo'omchaha'an (with young), yo'om (with young), k'oha'an (ill, sick, unwell, with young). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | grave, gravem, graves, gravi, gravia, gravida, gravior, graviora, graviores, gravis, gravissima, gravissimis, gravissimo, gravissimus, gravius, ingravesco, praegnans, praegnantem, praegnantes, praegnatibus, praegnatis, prægnans. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pregnant": pregnantly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "pregnant": impregnant, nonpregnant, pseudopregnant, unpregnant. (additional references) | |
Words containing "pregnant": impregnants. (additional references) | |
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"Pregnant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pragnant, pregant, pregnang, pregnants, pregnat, pregneant, pregnent, pregrant, prenant, progna, rpugnant. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pregnant" (pronounced pre"gnunt) |
| 5 | -g n u n t | indignant, malignant, repugnant, stagnant. |
| 4 | -n u n t | abstinent, complainant, component, consonant, contaminant, continent, covenant, immanent, imminent, impertinent, determinant, dissonant, dominant, eminent, exponent, incontinent, lieutenant, opponent, pennant, permanent, pertinent, predominant, preeminent, prominent, proponent, recombinant, remnant, resonant, ruminant, semipermanent, subcontinent, tenant. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complaisant, complement, compliant, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contentment, contestant, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, ignorant, immigrant, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, percipient, persistent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, pronouncement, propellant, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-n-n-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: regnant, trepang. | |
-2 letters: argent, arpent, enrapt, entrap, gannet, garnet, pangen, parent, parget, penang, tanner, trepan. | |
-3 letters: agent, anent, anger, antre, apter, arpen, gaper, grant, grape, grate, great, pager, panne, parge, paten, pater, peart, penna, prang, prate, range, regna, retag, taper, targe, terga. | |
-4 letters: ager, ante, aper, earn, etna, gaen, gane, gape, gate, gear, gent. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-n-n-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: parenting, repugnant. | |
+2 letters: entrapping, impregnant, parentings, partnering, patterning, pertaining, pregnantly, repainting, replanting, trepanning, unpregnant. | |
+3 letters: enrapturing, grandparent, impregnants, nonpregnant, patternings, penetrating, perennating, personating, preenacting, preplanting, pretraining, repugnantly, trapnesting. | |
+4 letters: appertaining, apprenticing, carpentering, copartnering, grandparents, impregnating, impregnation, interlapping, interplaying, interspacing, nonoperating, overplanting, permanganate, premalignant, reappointing, reimplanting, repatterning. | |
+5 letters: anthropogenic, grandparental, impersonating, impregnations, interplanting, interpleading, interpolating, penetratingly, peregrinating, peregrination, permanganates, precautioning, predominating, prenominating, stepparenting, transpiercing, underpainting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Usage Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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