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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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
Kulumbegashvili plunges us into a delivery room as an expectant mother struggles to give birth, the filmmaker’s camera shielding us from nothing as the hospital staff desperately try to extract the child.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025
Momma told me she and Daddy named me Jubilee right then and there in the delivery room because it was the happiest word they knew.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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