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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This included an empty can of energy drink left in the middle of the floor of a clean delivery room - as well as butter "smeared around the top of a birthing pool".
From BBC • Jun. 16, 2026
Francis was in the delivery room shooting video, which was very unusual at the time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 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
Five more lawyers quit, plus one who did so from the hospital delivery room.
From Slate • Feb. 14, 2025
At the door of the delivery room stood a thin, stoop-shouldered medical student Buddy knew.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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