midwife
noun/ˈmɪdwaɪf/
/ˈmɪdwaɪf/
(plural midwives
/ˈmɪdwaɪvz/
/ˈmɪdwaɪvz/
)- a person, especially a woman, who is trained to help women give birth to babies compare doulaWordfinderTopics Healthcarec2, Jobsc2, Life stagesc2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
- certified nurse
- qualified
- registered
- …
- deliver a baby
- attend a birth
Word OriginMiddle English: probably from the obsolete preposition mid ‘with’ + wife (in the archaic sense ‘woman’), expressing the sense ‘a woman who is with (the mother)’.
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