unborn
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English
Etymology
From Middle English unborn, from Old English unboren, from Proto-Germanic *unburanaz. Equivalent to un- + born.
Adjective
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
- (not born): coming; see also Thesaurus:future
Derived terms
Translations
not born
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still in mother's womb
Noun
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 Vanessa R. Sasson, Jane Marie Law, editors, Imagining the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture, Oxford University Press, →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.
- (uncountable) Unborn offspring collectively.
- Inheritance law allows property to be left to the unborn.
Quotations
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:unborn.