delivery room
Americannoun
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an area in a hospital equipped for delivering babies.
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a room or area in which deliveries are made or received, as the section of a public library where books are taken out or returned.
Etymology
Origin of delivery room
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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The two women were together in the delivery room when the baby was born the following spring.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2026
Francis was in the delivery room shooting video, which was very unusual at the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
A decade later, by the mid-1960s, it was rare for babies to be removed from the delivery room without being individually labelled.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2025
"Instead of holding my wife’s hand in the delivery room, I was crouched on a detention center floor, whispering through a crackling phone line as she labored alone," Khalil wrote.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2025
At noon Catherine was still in the delivery room.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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