womb

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   I danced myself right out the womb / Is it strange to dance so soon?

2. 2
   noun

   The abdomen or stomach.

   And his hede, hym semed,was enamyled with asure, and his shuldyrs shone as the golde, and his wombe was lyke mayles of a merveylous hew[…].

3. 3
   noun

   A place where something is made or formed.

   The womb of earth the genial seed receives.

4. 4
   noun

   Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.

   The centre spike of gold Which burns deep in the blue-bell's womb.

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 p...

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