pregnant

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Carrying a developing baby inside the body.

   I went to the doctor and, guess what, I'm five weeks pregnant!

2. 2
   adj

   Full of meaning or significance, suggesting much that is not said.

   There was a pregnant pause before she finally answered.

Common collocations

• pregnant woman Adjective + noun

From Middle English preignant, from Old French preignant, pregnant, also prenant (compare archaic Modern French prégnant), and their source, Latin praegnāns (“pregnant”), probably from prae- (“pre-”) + *gnāscī, an archaic form of nāscī (“to be born”). Displaced Old English bearnēacen (literally "child-enlarged").

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