Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman who has never given birth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A woman, especially one not a virgin, who has never had a child: correlated with primipara, multipara.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
woman who has nevergiven birth
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (obstetrics) a woman who has never give birth to a child
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin nūllus, none; see ne in Indo-European roots + –para.]
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Examples
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I could be the erotic, perennially sensual nullipara, the childbirth virgin, and yet I was also the dried-up crone with a uterus full of twigs.
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john commented on the word nullipara
“At the height of her pregnancy, Cathy and I embodied several facets of femininity. She could be seen as the fertile, glowing mother-to-be as well as the hemorrhoidal, flatulent, lumpen pregnant woman. I could be the erotic, perennially sensual nullipara, the childbirth virgin, and yet I was also the dried-up crone with a uterus full of twigs.�?
The New York Times, Her Body, My Baby, by Alex Kuczynski, November 28, 2008
December 1, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word nullipara
Is there any difference between nullipara and nulliparous? Maybe the former is a noun and the latter an adjective?
December 1, 2008