English noun: lying-in | |||
1. | lying-in (state) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | ||
Samples | She was in labor for six hours. | ||
Synonyms | childbed, confinement, labor, labour, parturiency, travail | ||
Broader (hypernym) | birth, birthing, giving birth, parturition | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | premature labor, premature labour | ||
Part holonym | asynclitism, effacement, obliquity, uterine contraction | ||
Part meronym | gestation, maternity, pregnancy | ||