Synonyms for midwife

Grammar : Noun

Spell : mid-wahyf

Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɪdˌwaɪf

Définition of midwife

Origin : c.1300, "woman assisting," literally "woman who is 'with' " (the mother at birth), from Middle English mid "with" (see mid) + wif "woman" (see wife). Cognate with German Beifrau.

noun childbirth assistant

Example sentences :

On the honor of a midwife, I have seldom brought into the world one so pretty.
Extract from : « A Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales » by Guy De Maupassant

When the midwife had sipped hers up, she went off; everything was going on nicely, she was not required.
Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola

She said she was the daughter of a midwife at Bercy who had failed in business.
Extract from : « Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille » by Emile Zola

Come then to me, who am a midwife, and the son of a midwife, and I will deliver you.
Extract from : « Theaetetus » by Plato

Do you think—does it cost very much to learn to be a midwife?
Extract from : « The Great Hunger » by Johan Bojer

And when you're a midwife, Froken Hagen might quite well marry a doctor, you know.
Extract from : « The Great Hunger » by Johan Bojer

What I should like you to do would be to take me to a midwife's.
Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

I played in short the part of a midwife, but with what a struggle!
Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

I instructed him that I did not know any midwife in Paris whatsoever.
Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

The midwife sent me a requisition yesterday by her counsel, Vauversin.
Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

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