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Narrator: Today's word is "Pregnant" — adjective, pronounced /ˈpreɡnənt/, with the stress on "preg".
Narrator: Pregnant means having a baby or young developing inside the body.
Narrator: In plain English, a pregnant woman is expecting a baby.
Narrator: It comes from the Latin praegnans, from prae, before, and gnasci, to be born.
Narrator: A common collocation is "six months pregnant", which describes how far a pregnancy has gone.
Narrator: It differs from "expecting", because expecting is a softer, informal way to say the same thing.
Narrator: In a second sense, a pregnant pause is a silence full of meaning.
Narrator: Medicine, family life, literature and law all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: pregnant means expecting a baby, or full of meaning.
Speaker A: What is a pregnant pause?
Speaker B: A silence full of meaning! PREGNANT comes from the Latin for before birth, so something is about to come.
Speaker A: So everyone waits for what happens next?
Speaker B: Exactly.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "She is five months pregnant", describing a pregnancy. "Pregnant women should avoid some cheeses", health advice. "There was a pregnant pause", a meaningful silence.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Say pregnant with a baby or simply pregnant, not pregnant of.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Expecting is its gentle cousin, expectant is its formal twin, and with child is the old-fashioned alternative, but pregnant keeps its hopeful charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "pregnant" in AI prompts — useful for health apps and inclusive design.
Speaker A: How would a health app use it?
Speaker B: Be careful and supportive.
Prompt: Build a week-by-week tracker for pregnant users showing baby development facts and reminding them to follow their midwife's advice.
Speaker A: And inclusive design?
Speaker B: Think of physical needs.
Prompt: Review this office layout plan and suggest changes to make it comfortable for pregnant employees.
Speaker A: Could it help writers?
Speaker B: Yes, with the figurative sense.
Prompt: Write a short dialogue that ends with a pregnant pause before a surprising confession.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Workplace policy.
Prompt: Summarise UK maternity rights for pregnant employees in five plain-English bullet points.
Pregnant — meaning in Arabic & definition More P courses GL Dictionary