different between pregnant vs multigravida

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)

1. (chiefly not comparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body.
   1. Of a couple: expecting a baby together.

2. (comparable) Having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.
3. (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.

4. (obsolete) Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.
5. (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)

1. 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)

1. (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.

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)

1. poignant, incisive
2. meaningful, polysemic
3. (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)

1. pregnant (having many possibilities or implications)

Declension

English

Noun

multigravida (plural multigravidas or multigravidae)

1. A pregnant woman who has had at least two previous pregnancies