BLESSED EVENT

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does blessed event mean? 

• BLESSED EVENT (noun)
  The noun BLESSED EVENT has 1 sense:

1. the live birth of a child

  Familiarity information: BLESSED EVENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLESSED EVENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The live birth of a child

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

blessed event; happy event

Hypernyms ("blessed event" is a kind of...):

live birth (the birth of a living fetus (regardless of the length of gestation))

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

I think I committed every possible absurdity in the way of preparation for this blessed event.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)