unborn
adjectifnomattesté dans les dialogues
- États-Unis
Not yet born; yet to come; future.
adjectif
- 1
Not yet born; yet to come; future.
- 2
Not yet delivered; still existing in the mother's womb.
Ellen Page gives a star-making performance as a 16-year-old live wire who decides to go through with her pregnancy and seeks acceptably well-adjusted, wealthy, punk-rock loving parents for the unborn baby.
- 3
Existing without birth or beginning.
Étymologie
From Middle English unborn, from Old English unboren, from Proto-Germanic *unburanaz. Equivalent to un- + born.
nom
- 1
A single unborn offspring at any stage of gestation.
Whereas the lack of a child brings shame upon Anna and Joachim, the converse holds true for Mary: the existence of an unborn in the womb of a woman who is supposed to be a virgin causes great scandal.
- 2
Unborn offspring collectively.
Inheritance law allows property to be left to the unborn.
Formes
- pluriel
- unborns