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midwife

noun
🔊/ˈmɪdwaɪf/
🔊/ˈmɪdwaɪf/
(plural midwives
🔊/ˈmɪdwaɪvz/
🔊/ˈmɪdwaɪvz/
)
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  1. a person, especially a woman, who is trained to help women give birth to babies助产士；接生员；产婆 compare doula
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    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • certified nurse
    • qualified
    • registered
    • …
    midwife + verb
    • deliver a baby
    • attend a birth
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    Word OriginMiddle English: probably from the obsolete preposition mid ‘with’ + wife (in the archaic sense ‘woman’), expressing the sense ‘a woman who is with (the mother)’.