childbearern.
/ˈtʃʌɪl(d)ˌbɛːrə/, U.S. /ˈtʃaɪl(d)ˌbɛrər/ A woman who gives birth, a mother. Also: (esp. in later use) a woman viewed (only or primarily) as someone who bears children.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] > procreator, parent, or origin
motherOE
stallionc1305
childbearera1382
getterc1390
begetter1440
procreator1548
propagator1585
procreatrix1593
breeder1594
procreatress1597
pregnatress1651
multiplier1660
parent1670
propagatrix1803
baby-maker1968
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > [noun]
mothereOE
dame?c1225
merea1275
childbearera1382
genitricea1500
mammy1523
dama1547
mama1555
genetrix1561
mam1570
mum?1595
old lady1599
authoressc1603
mam1608
genitress1610
old woman1668
old girl1745
mummy1768
momma1810
madre1815
maw1826
ma1829
marm1835
mater1843
mom1846
mommy1846
maternal1867
motherkins1870
muvver1871
mumsy1876
mamacita1887
mutti1905
birth mother1906
duchess1909
amma1913
momsey1914
mums1915
moms1925
mata1945
baby-mother1966
mama1982
old dear1985
baby-mama1986
the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > childbirth or delivery > one who gives birth
childbearera1382
teemer1637
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. iv. 31 A vois..I herde, anguysshes as of the child berere [L. parturientis].
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 24 A chyldberer, puerpera.
1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin ii. iv. 70 A Woman with Child devoutly present at Mass, if she should fall in Travail the same day, 'tis to be hoped, that God will make her a joyful Childbearer.
1770 J. Banks Jrnl. (1962) II. 251 They [sc. Cape women]..are the best housekeepers imaginable and great childbearers.
1875 Harper's Bazar 6 Feb. 90/3 What a burden it is that he puts upon her in requiring her in her single character to perform the duties of many—of house-maid and governess and hostess and child-bearer.
1989 F. F. Furstenberg in D. P. Willis Health Policies & Black Americans (1994) 395 White teen mothers are actually more likely to be employed than white older childbearers.
2019 Sunday Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 10 Feb. 13 Women training to become surgeons have..been dismissed as childbearers undeserving of medical training.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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