WITH CHILD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does with child mean? 

• WITH CHILD (adjective)
  The adjective WITH CHILD has 1 sense:

1. in an advanced stage of pregnancy

  Familiarity information: WITH CHILD used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WITH CHILD (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an advanced stage of pregnancy

Synonyms:

big; enceinte; expectant; gravid; great; heavy; large; with child

Context example:

was great with child

Similar:

pregnant (carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life)

 Context examples 

A question about an individual's distress related to their practical problems with child care.

(Distress over Practical Problem with Child Care, NCI Thesaurus)

Above all, an heir to the throne had been born in Bordeaux, and the prince might leave his spouse with an easy mind, for all was well with mother and with child.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I left my poor wife big with child, and accepted an advantageous offer made me to be captain of the Adventurer, a stout merchantman of 350 tons: for I understood navigation well, and being grown weary of a surgeon’s employment at sea, which, however, I could exercise upon occasion, I took a skilful young man of that calling, one Robert Purefoy, into my ship.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Wilson was so sick that he looked guilty, unforgivably guilty—as if he had just got some poor girl with child.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)