Usually means: Trained professional assisting in childbirth.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word midwife:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. midwife: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. midwife: Merriam-Webster
  3. midwife: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. midwife: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. midwife: Collins English Dictionary
  6. midwife: Vocabulary.com
  7. Midwife, midwife: Wordnik
  8. midwife: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. midwife: Wiktionary
  10. midwife: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. midwife: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. midwife: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. midwife: Dictionary.com
  14. midwife: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. midwife: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Midwife, The Midwife: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Midwife: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. midwife: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. midwife: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. midwife: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Midwife: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. midwife: FreeDictionary.org
  23. midwife: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. midwife: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. midwife: Rhymezone

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Midwife: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. midwife: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. midwife: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Midwife: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Pregnancy & Baby (No longer online)
  7. A-Z Family health glossary (No longer online)
  8. midwife: Medical dictionary
  9. Midwife: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. MIDWIFE, MIDWIFE, MIDWIFE, MIDWIFE, MIDWIFE, MIDWIFE: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  3. midwife: A Word A Day
  4. midwife: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Midwife: Easton Bible

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. midwife: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See midwifed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (obstetrics) A person, usually a woman, who is trained to assist women in childbirth, but who is not a physician.
noun:  (rare, figuratively) Someone who assists in bringing about some result or project.
verb:  (transitive) To act as a midwife.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To facilitate the emergence of.

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