unborn
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
unborn (not comparable)
- Not yet born; yet to come; future.
- Not yet delivered; still existing in the mother's womb.
- Existing without birth or beginning.
Synonyms[edit]
- (not born): coming; see also Thesaurus:future
Translations[edit]
not born
still in mother's womb
Noun[edit]
unborn (countable and uncountable, plural unborns)
- (countable) A single unborn offspring at any stage of gestation.
- 2009, Catherine Playoust & Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, "The Leaping Child: Imagining the Unborn in Early Christian Literature", in Imagining the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture (eds. Vanessa R. Sasson & Jane Marie Law), Oxford University Press (2009), →ISBN, page 176:
- Whereas the lack of a child brings shame upon Anna and Joachim, the converse holds true for Mary: the existence of an unborn in the womb of a woman who is supposed to be a virgin causes great scandal.
- 2009, Catherine Playoust & Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, "The Leaping Child: Imagining the Unborn in Early Christian Literature", in Imagining the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture (eds. Vanessa R. Sasson & Jane Marie Law), Oxford University Press (2009), →ISBN, page 176:
- (uncountable) Unborn offspring collectively.
- Inheritance law allows property to be left to the unborn.
Quotations[edit]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:unborn.