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Accoucheur

Definition: Accoucheur

Accoucheur

Noun

1. A physician specializing in obstetrics.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "accoucheur" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references)

Etymology: Accoucheur \Ac*cou*cheur"\, noun. [French expression, from accoucher. See Accouchement.]. (Websters 1913)

"Accoucheur" is a common misspelling or typo for: accouter.

Synonym: Accoucheur

Synonym: obstetrician (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Accoucheur

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Instrumentality

Minister, handmaid; midwife, accoucheur, accoucheuse, obstetrician; gobetween; cat's-paw; stepping-stone.

Remedy

Doctor, physician, surgeon; medical practitioner, general practitioner, specialist; medical attendant, apothecary, druggist; leech; osteopath, osteopathist; optometrist, ophthalmologist; internist, oncologist, gastroenterologist; epidemiologist, public health specialist; dermatologist; podiatrist; witch doctor, shaman, faith healer, quack, exorcist; Aesculapius, Hippocrates, Galen; accoucheur, accoucheuse, midwife, oculist, aurist; operator; nurse, registered nurse, practical nurse, monthly nurse, sister; nurse's aide, candystriper; dresser; bonesetter; pharmaceutist, pharmacist, druggist, chemist, pharmacopolist.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Accoucheur

Non-English Usage: "Accoucheur" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (obstetrician), French (accoucheur, obstetrician, obstetricians).

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Commercial Usage: Accoucheur

DomainTitle

Books

  • Accoucheur de campagne sous le Roi Soleil : le traité d'accouchement de G. Mauquest de La Motte (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Accoucheur

Language Translations for "accoucheur"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

mjek i grave shtatzënë. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏طبيب مولد (obstetrician). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

акушер (obstetrician). (various references)

   

Danish

  

accoucheur. (various references)

   

French

  

accoucheur. (various references)

   

German

  

Hebearzt. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μαιευτήρας (obstetrician). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szülész (obstetrician, obstetrist). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ostetrico (obstetric, obstetrical, obstetrician). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

accoucheuray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

parteiro, obstetra (obstetrician), médico obstetra. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

obstetrician (obstetrician), mamoş (obstetrician), ginecolog. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

акушер (obstetrician). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

akušer (obstetrician). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

partero, diplomado en obstetricia. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ackuschör (obstetrician). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ebe (accoucheuse, it, midwife, obstetrician, wise woman), doğum doktoru (accoucheuse, obstetrician). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

акушер (obstetrician). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người đỡ đẻ. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Accoucheur

Derivations

Words beginning with "accoucheur": accoucheurs. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Accoucheur

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-c-e-h-o-r-u-u"

-3 letters: caroche, coacher, coucher.

-4 letters: accrue, cachou, caroch, chorea, crouch, ochrea, orache, rouche.

-5 letters: cache, chare, chore, coach, couch, curch, occur, ocher, ochre, ocrea, orach, reach, roach, ruche.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-c-e-h-o-r-u-u"
 

+1 letter: accoucheurs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Accoucheur


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 63 63 6F 75 63 68 65 75 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100011 01100011 01101111 01110101 01100011 01101000 01100101 01110101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0063 0063 006F 0075 0063 0068 0065 0075 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35696981876974718784

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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