noun
Meaning 1
A hospital ward that provides assistance during childbirth.
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Phrase guide
maternity ward
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noun
Meaning 2
a hospital ward that provides care for women during pregnancy and childbirth and for newborn infants
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Broader terms: ward, hospital ward
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Across languages
Translations
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: قِسْمُ النِّسَاءِ وَٱلْوِلَادَةِ (qismu n-nisāʔi wal-wilādati) — hospital ward
- Bulgarian: роди́лно отделе́ние (rodílno otdelénie) — hospital ward
- Danish: fødeafdeling — hospital ward
- Dutch: kraamafdeling — hospital ward
- Faroese: føðideild — hospital ward
- Finnish: synnytyslaitos — hospital ward
- Finnish: synnytysosasto — hospital ward
- Finnish: synnäri — hospital ward
- Finnish: lapsenpäästölaitos — hospital ward
- French: maternité — hospital ward
- German: Entbindungsstation — hospital ward
- Icelandic: fæðingardeild — hospital ward
- Icelandic: sængurkvennadeild — hospital ward
- Macedonian: породи́лно (porodílno) — hospital ward
- Māori: whare kōhanga — hospital ward
- Norwegian Bokmål: fødeavdeling — hospital ward
- Norwegian Bokmål: barselavdeling — hospital ward
- Norwegian Nynorsk: fødeavdeling — hospital ward
- Norwegian Nynorsk: barselavdeling — hospital ward
- Polish: oddział położniczy — hospital ward
- Polish: porodówka — hospital ward
- Russian: роди́льное отделе́ние (rodílʹnoje otdelénije) — hospital ward
- Serbo-Croatian: rodilište — hospital ward
- Serbo-Croatian: porodilište — hospital ward
- Spanish: sala de maternidad — hospital ward
- Swedish: förlossningsavdelning — hospital ward
- Swedish: barnbördshus — hospital ward
- Swedish: barnbördsavdelning — hospital ward
- Tamil: ஈனில் (īṉil) — hospital ward
- Ukrainian: поло́гове відді́лення (polóhove viddílennja) — hospital ward
- Yiddish: קימפּעט־פּאַלאַטע (kimpet-palate) — hospital ward