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Word: Midwife
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
Middle English: probably from the obsolete preposition mid ‘with’ + wife (in the archaic sense ‘woman’), expressing the sense ‘a woman who is with (the mother’)
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈmɪdwʌɪf
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a person, typically a woman, who is trained to assist women in childbirth.
Short Definition:person trained to assist women in childbirth
Word: Midwife
Speech Type: Verb
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈmɪdwʌɪf
Dialects: British English
Definition:
assist (a woman) during childbirth
Short Definition:assist woman during childbirth
Examples:- these women midwifed her
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