midwife
gb/mˈɪdwˌaɪf/ us/mˈɪdwˌaɪf/
B1
อังกฤษ
~ 8500
ความหมาย
0 ความหมาย
คำนาม
B1
entity
1
health professional for childbirth care
A trained health worker who helps women during pregnancy and when they give birth, and who delivers babies.
รูปแบบการใช้:
a midwife helps [someone] give birth
ข้อผิดพลาดที่พบบ่อย:
Learners sometimes confuse a 'midwife' with an 'obstetrician'. An obstetrician is a medical doctor who specializes in pregnancy and childbirth, while a midwife is a trained professional who may or may not be a doctor. Learners also often misspell the plural: it is 'midwives', not 'midwifes'.
คำพ้องความหมาย
birth attendant (Broad term for someone present to assist at a birth; less specific about training or medical role than 'midwife'.)
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obstetrician (A medical doctor who specializes in pregnancy and childbirth; more clinical and hospital-based than most midwives.)
คำที่ใช้ร่วมกัน
trained midwife
|qualified midwife
|community midwife
|midwife-led unit
|midwife-assisted birth
|consultant midwife
หัวข้อ
health
|family
|professions
|body
ตัวอย่าง
- The midwife stayed with her throughout labor and coached her breathing.
- She chose to have her baby at home with a registered midwife.
- The hospital has a midwife-led unit for low-risk pregnancies.
- After the birth, the midwife visited the family at home to check on the baby.
ตัวอย่างสำหรับผู้เรียน
- The midwife helped the woman during the birth.
- I talked to the midwife about my pregnancy.
- A midwife delivered their baby last night.
- The midwife checked the baby and said he was healthy.
คำกริยา
B2
action
2
to assist in childbirth as midwife
To help a woman give birth when you are working as a midwife.
รูปแบบการใช้:
to midwife [someone] / to midwife [a birth]
ข้อผิดพลาดที่พบบ่อย:
Learners often do not realize that 'midwife' can be used as a verb. It is mainly used in professional or descriptive contexts and is less common in everyday conversation than the noun.
คำพ้องความหมาย
deliver (Common medical verb meaning to help a woman give birth; does not specifically state that the person is a midwife.)
คำที่ใช้ร่วมกัน
midwife a birth
|midwife a home delivery
|midwifed by a nurse
|midwife dozens of babies
หัวข้อ
health
|family
|body
ตัวอย่าง
- She has midwifed more than three hundred births in rural clinics.
- The baby was midwifed by a local nurse who had special training.
- They decided to have the child midwifed at home rather than in the hospital.
ตัวอย่างสำหรับผู้เรียน
- She midwifed many babies in that village.
- The baby was midwifed at home.
- A young nurse midwifed the birth.
- He wants to learn how to midwife safe home births.
คำกริยา
formal
C1
action
3
to help bring something into being
To help an idea, plan, or project start and grow, especially in the early and difficult stages.
รูปแบบการใช้:
to midwife [a project / an agreement / a reform]
ข้อผิดพลาดที่พบบ่อย:
Learners may misunderstand this figurative use and think it always refers to babies. In business or political news, 'to midwife a deal' or 'to midwife reforms' means to help create or start them, not anything related to giving birth to a child.
คำพ้องความหมาย
facilitate (More general and common; stresses making something easier, without the birth-related metaphor.)
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nurture (Emphasizes caring for something so it can grow over time; slightly more emotional and less technical than 'midwife'.)
คำตรงข้าม
block (Means to stop something from starting or happening; the opposite of helping it come into existence.)
คำที่ใช้ร่วมกัน
midwife a deal
|midwife a peace agreement
|midwife a new institution
|midwife reform
|midwife a transition
หัวข้อ
business
|politics
|projects
|work
ตัวอย่าง
- The minister helped midwife the peace talks that ended the conflict.
- Several NGOs midwifed the creation of the new health program.
- Her foundation midwifed many of the city’s most important cultural projects.
- A coalition of activists midwifed the transition to democratic rule.
ตัวอย่างสำหรับผู้เรียน
- The group midwifed a new school project.
- He midwifed the deal between the two companies.
- Many people worked to midwife the peace agreement.
- The charity midwifed a program to help poor families.
คำนาม
formal
C1
entity
4
person who helps bring something about
A person or thing that strongly helps start an idea, event, group, or change.
รูปแบบการใช้:
[someone] is the midwife of [something]
ข้อผิดพลาดที่พบบ่อย:
Learners may take this meaning literally and think it always involves babies. In news or history writing, 'the midwife of democracy' or similar phrases are figurative and refer to the cause or helper that made something possible.
คำพ้องความหมาย
architect (Often used figuratively for the main planner or designer of a policy or system; stresses design more than nurturing.)
คำตรงข้าม
obstacle (Something that makes it hard or impossible for something to begin or succeed, the opposite of helping it be born.)
คำที่ใช้ร่วมกัน
the midwife of reform
|the midwife of democracy
|the midwife of independence
|midwife of change
|economic crisis as midwife of conflict
หัวข้อ
politics
|history
|business
|core_vocabulary
ตัวอย่าง
- She is widely regarded as the midwife of the country’s new constitution.
- Some historians call the financial crisis the midwife of the revolution.
- The grassroots movement was the midwife of today’s environmental policies.
- His patient diplomacy became the midwife of the peace process.
ตัวอย่างสำหรับผู้เรียน
- Many people see her as the midwife of the new law.
- The old system was the midwife of many problems.
- This small group was the midwife of the modern company.
- War was the midwife of big political change.
ไวยากรณ์
รูปคำในพจนานุกรม
midwife
IPA
GB/mˈɪdwˌaɪf/
US/mˈɪdwˌaɪf/
พยางค์และการเน้นเสียง
mid - wife (2 พยางค์)
Stress on 1st syllable (mid)
รูปคำ
Noun
- Base: midwife
- Plural: mid-wives, midwives
Verb
- Base: midwife
- 3rd Person Singular: midwifes, midwives
- Present Participle: midwifing, midwiving
- Past: midwifed, midwived
- Past Participle: midwived
กลุ่มคำที่เกี่ยวข้อง
Forms
mid-wives
noun
midwives
noun
midwifes
verb
midwifing
verb
midwiving
verb
midwifed
verb
midwived
verb
Core family
midwifery
noun C1
จุดสำคัญด้านไวยากรณ์
- Irregular past participle: midwived Verb
วลีและสำนวน
play midwife to [something]
1/plˈeɪ mˈɪdwˌaɪf tə sˈʌmθɪŋ/
idiom
formal
to help bring something about
To help something important, like a project or agreement, start and succeed, especially by guiding it at the beginning.
ตัวอย่าง
- International agencies played midwife to the fragile peace deal.
- A group of senior managers played midwife to the company’s restructuring plan.
- Local activists played midwife to the creation of the new national park.
the midwife of [something]
1/ðə mˈɪdwˌaɪf əv sˈʌmθɪŋ/
fixed phrase
formal
main cause or creator of something
Used to say that a person or thing strongly helped create or start something important, like a law, a movement, or a change.
ตัวอย่าง
- Political unrest was the midwife of the new democracy.
- Many consider her the midwife of modern environmental law.
- Rapid technological change has been the midwife of today’s digital economy.