womb

Pronunciation: /wuːm/

The English word “womb” has 6 meanings listed here.

noun

In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.
The abdomen or stomach.
The stomach of a person or creature.
A place where something is made or formed.
Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.

verb

To enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.

Etymology

From Middle English wombe, wambe, from Old English womb, wamb (“belly, stomach; bowels; heart; womb; hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *wambu, from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly, stomach, abdomen”). Cognate with Scots wam, wame (“womb”), Dutch wam (“dewlap of beef; belly of a fish”), German Wamme, Wampe (“paunch, belly”), Danish vom (“belly, paunch, rumen”), Swedish våmb (“belly, stomach,…

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