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adj
After giving birth (often defined as within 30 days after childbirth).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Qualifier: a symptom; a diagnosis or treatment; etc; a symptom; a diagnosis or treatment; etc
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Synonyms: postdelivery, childing, postnatal, postpartal, post-partural
Antonyms: antepartum, prepartum, postnatal
Broader terms: peripartum
adv
After giving birth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The period immediately following childbirth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Ellipsis of postpartum depression.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
occurring immediately after birth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: postnatal
Antonyms: none provided
History
1844, from Latin post (“after”) + partum (“giving birth”), form of partus, from pariō (“to give birth”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forth”).
Across languages
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
