noun · rare

womb

womb · wombs

матка, черево, утроба

чрево, матка, утроба, колыбель

Schoß, Gebärmutter, Uterus, Mutterleib

In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birthIn female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.

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/wuːm/

» Karl's daughter died in the womb.

Meaning

5 senses

In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.
Gebärmutter, Uterus, Mutterleib
ма́ткаmátka, утро́баutróba, чре́воčrévo
ма́ткаmátka, утро́баutróba, че́ревоčérevo
(figuratively)A place where something is made or formed.
ло́ноlóno, чре́воčrévo, колыбе́льkolybélʹ
Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.
(obsolete)The abdomen or stomach.
(obsolete)The stomach of a person or creature.

More definitions

a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus

Examples

22 sentences

Karl's daughter died in the womb.
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The baby is in the mother's womb.
ruМладенец находится в утробе матери.
deDas Baby ist im Mutterleib.
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Life is a journey from womb to tomb.
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The womb is the mother of all things.
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There is but her womb ... and the baby within.
deEs gibt nur ihre Gebärmutter — und das Wesen darin.
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Translations

9 languages

Українська

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Русский

By meaning 2

uterus:

figuratively: place where something is made or formed:

Deutsch

By meaning 1

uterus:

Origin

From Middle English wombe, wambe, from Old English womb, wamb (“belly, stomach; bowels; he

From Middle English wombe, wambe, from Old English womb, wamb (“belly, stomach; bowels; heart; womb; hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *wambu, from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly, stomach, abdomen”). Cognate with Scots wam, wame (“womb”), Dutch wam (“dewlap of beef; belly of a fish”), German Wamme, Wampe (“paunch, belly”), Danish vom (“belly, paunch, rumen”), Swedish våmb (“belly, stomach, rumen”), Norwegian vom (“rumen”), Icelandic vömb (“belly, abdomen, stomach”), Old Welsh gumbelauc (“womb”), Breton gwamm (“woman, wife”), Sanskrit वपा (vapā́, “the skin or membrane lining the intestines or parts of the viscera, the caul or omentum”). Superseded nonnative Middle English mater, matere (“womb”), and matris, matrice (“womb”) borrowed from Latin māter (“womb”) and Old French matrice (“womb”), respectively.

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