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abounding
English
Pronunciation
- (US)
Adjective
abounding (comparative more abounding, superlative most abounding)
- Ample, plenty, abundant.
- abounding food
- an abounding stream
Derived terms
- aboundingly
Translations
Verb
abounding
- present participle of abound
Noun
abounding (plural aboundings)
- An abundance.
- 1678, John Collinges, Several Discourses Concerning the Actual Providence of God
- Sin in its own nature tendeth to nothing, but the ruine and eternal destruction of a Soul: it must be from the aboundings of grace, if any good come to the soul from sin […]
- 1678, John Collinges, Several Discourses Concerning the Actual Providence of God
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pregnant
English
Alternative forms
- prægnant (obsolete)
- pregnaunt (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p???n?nt/
Etymology 1
From Middle English preignant, from Old French preignant, pregnant, also prenant (compare archaic Modern French prégnant), and their source, Latin praegn?ns (“pregnant”), probably from prae- (“pre-”) + gnasc? (“to be born”). Displaced Old English bearn?acen (literally "child-increased").
Adjective
pregnant (comparative more pregnant, superlative most pregnant)
- (chiefly not comparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body.
- Of a couple: expecting a baby together.
- Of a couple: expecting a baby together.
- (comparable) Having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.
- (poetic) Fertile, prolific (usually of soil, ground, etc.).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vi:
- The sunne-beames bright vpon her body playd, / Being through former bathing mollifide, / And pierst into her wombe, where they embayd / With so sweet sence and secret power vnspide, / That in her pregnant flesh they shortly fructifide.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vi:
- (obsolete) Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.
- (obsolete) Ready-witted; clever; ingenious.
Synonyms
- (carrying offspring (standard)): expecting, expecting a baby, expectant, gravid (of animals only), with child, fertilized
- (carrying offspring (colloquial/slang)): eating for two, having a bun in the oven, in a family way, knocked up, preggers, up the duff, up the spout
- (carrying offspring (euphemistic)): in an interesting condition, in a family way
- (having many possibilities or implications): meaningful, significant
- See also Thesaurus:pregnant
Hyponyms
- (carrying developing offspring): in trouble
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
pregnant (plural pregnants)
- A pregnant person.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dunglison to this entry?)
Etymology 2
Apparently from Middle French pregnant, preignant (“pressing, compelling”), present participle of prembre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”).
Adjective
pregnant (comparative more pregnant, superlative most pregnant)
- (now rare) Compelling; clear, evident. [from 14th c.]
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.18:
- Peregrine was in a little time a distinguished character, not only for his acuteness of apprehension, but also for that mischievous fertility of fancy, of which we have already given such pregnant examples.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.18:
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French pregnant, from Old French pregnant, from Latin praegn?ns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pr?x?n?nt/
- Hyphenation: preg?nant
- Rhymes: -?nt
Adjective
pregnant (comparative pregnanter, superlative pregnantst)
- poignant, incisive
- meaningful, polysemic
- (obsolete) important
Inflection
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from German prägnant and French prégnant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pre??nant/
Adjective
pregnant m or n (feminine singular pregnant?, masculine plural pregnan?i, feminine and neuter plural pregnante)
- pregnant (having many possibilities or implications)
Declension
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