maternity

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

noun

1. the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother
• Syn:
motherhood
• Derivationally related forms:
mother (for: motherhood)
• Hypernyms:
kinship, family relationship, relationship
2. the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother
- the girl's motherliness made her invaluable in caring for the children
• Syn:
motherliness, maternalism, maternal quality
• Derivationally related forms:
maternal, maternalistic (for: maternalism), motherly (for: motherliness)
• Hypernyms:
parental quality
• Attrubites:
maternal
3. the state of being pregnant;
the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus
• Syn:
pregnancy, gestation
• Derivationally related forms:
gestational (for: gestation), gestate (for: gestation), pregnant (for: pregnancy)
• Members of this Topic:
fetal movement, foetal movement, amniocentesis, amnio, stretch mark,
endometrium, phlebothrombosis, venous thrombosis
• Hypernyms:
physical condition, physiological state, physiological condition
• Hyponyms:
trouble, gravidity, gravidness, gravidation, gravida,
parity, para, ectopic pregnancy, extrauterine pregnancy, ectopic gestation, extrauterine gestation,
eccyesis, metacyesis, entopic pregnancy, placenta previa
• Part Meronyms:
cleavage, segmentation, quickening, parturiency, labor,
labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed, morning sickness

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  motherliness, maternalism, maternal quality, motherhood, pregnancy, gestation