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accouchement
noun. birth
  • birthing
  • childbearing
  • childbed
  • childbirth
  • delivery
  • labor
  • lying-in
  • parturition

birthing
noun. birth
  • accouchement
  • bearing
  • childbearing
  • childbirth
  • delivery
  • giving birth
  • labor
  • lying-in
  • parturition

intercommunication
noun. communication
  • advice
  • advisement
  • announcing
  • articulation
  • assertion
  • communion
  • connection
  • contact
  • conversation
  • converse
  • correspondence
  • corresponding
  • declaration
  • delivery
  • disclosing
  • dissemination
  • elucidation
  • expression
  • intelligence
  • interchange
  • intercourse
  • link
  • making known
  • mention
  • notifying
  • publication
  • reading
  • reception
  • revelation
  • talk
  • talking
  • telling
  • transfer
  • translating
  • transmission
  • utterance
  • writing

lying-in
noun. birth
  • accouchement
  • act of God
  • bearing
  • beginning
  • birthing
  • blessed event
  • childbearing
  • childbirth
  • creation
  • delivery
  • labor
  • nascency
  • natality
  • nativity
  • parturition
  • producing
  • travail
  • visit from stork

verbalization
noun. expression
  • announcement
  • argument
  • articulation
  • assertion
  • asseveration
  • choice of words
  • commentary
  • communication
  • declaration
  • definition
  • delivery
  • diction
  • elucidation
  • emphasis
  • enunciation
  • execution
  • explanation
  • exposition
  • formulation
  • idiom
  • interpretation
  • intonation
  • issue
  • language
  • locution
  • mention
  • narration
  • phrase
  • phraseology
  • phrasing
  • pronouncement
  • remark
  • rendition
  • set phrase
  • speaking
  • speech
  • statement
  • style
  • term
  • turn of phrase
  • utterance
  • vent
  • vocalization
  • voice
  • voicing
  • word
  • writ

vocalism
noun. voicing
  • articulation
  • call
  • cry
  • delivery
  • enunciation
  • exclamation
  • inflection
  • intonation
  • modulation
  • murmur
  • mutter
  • roar
  • shout
  • song
  • sound
  • speech
  • statement
  • tone
  • tongue
  • utterance
  • vent
  • vocalization
  • vociferation
  • words
  • yell

vocalization
noun. expression
  • announcement
  • argument
  • articulation
  • assertion
  • asseveration
  • choice of words
  • commentary
  • communication
  • declaration
  • definition
  • delivery
  • diction
  • elucidation
  • emphasis
  • enunciation
  • execution
  • explanation
  • exposition
  • formulation
  • idiom
  • interpretation
  • intonation
  • issue
  • language
  • locution
  • mention
  • narration
  • phrase
  • phraseology
  • phrasing
  • pronouncement
  • remark
  • rendition
  • set phrase
  • speaking
  • speech
  • statement
  • style
  • term
  • turn of phrase
  • utterance
  • vent
  • verbalization
  • voice
  • voicing
  • word
  • writ

vocalization
noun. voicing
  • articulation
  • call
  • cry
  • delivery
  • enunciation
  • exclamation
  • inflection
  • intonation
  • modulation
  • murmur
  • mutter
  • roar
  • shout
  • song
  • sound
  • speech
  • statement
  • tone
  • tongue
  • utterance
  • vent
  • vocalism
  • vociferation
  • words
  • yell
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Word Origin & History

delivery late 15c., "action of handing over to another," from Anglo-Fr. delivrée, fem. pp. of délivrer (see deliver). Childbirth sense is attested from 1570s. Of speech, from 1580s. Of a blow, throw of a ball, etc., from 1702.

Example Sentences for delivery

It must not be supposed that this spring day in the spring places had reformed his manner of delivery.

The work of the individual endured only as long as its delivery lasted.

The delivery of ewes and wethers is timed by individual arrangement.

The purchaser then brought, or sent, an order on board the ship, for the delivery of the opium.

The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.

This was addressed to the postman, who came in with the afternoon delivery of letters.

Her delivery was unnatural and pompous; her motions were stiff, strained, ridiculous.

It was the delivery of those at the apartment that taxed her ingenuity.

Of course there ain't no delivery of the goods now because—'

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