HOW TO PRONOUNCE
womb
/wum/
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Finish with “m,” without “b.”
Start with w and use the long oo vowel of moon. The written b is silent, so keep the word to one syllable and let m complete it.
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“The illustration shows development in the womb.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does womb mean?
noun
- In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.
- (figuratively) A place where something is made or formed.
- Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.
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noun
- (obsolete) The abdomen or stomach.
- (obsolete) The stomach of a person or creature.
verb
- (obsolete) To enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.
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These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion.
Of these poor wretches, born slaves of the bottle, predestined to drunkenness from their mother's womb, there are--who can say how many?
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THE REACTION OF THE UTERUS.--The womb, which is small before marriage, is converted by pregnancy into the largest organ of the body.
The lotus is adored as the female principle throughout Nature, or as the "womb of all creation," and is sacred throughout oriental countries.
Young mares that become hysterical have abnormal labor pains that seem to hold the foetus in the womb instead of expelling it.