MORNING SICKNESS

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does morning sickness mean? 

• MORNING SICKNESS (noun)
  The noun MORNING SICKNESS has 1 sense:

1. nausea early in the day; a characteristic symptom in the early months of pregnancy

  Familiarity information: MORNING SICKNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MORNING SICKNESS (noun)

Meaning:

Nausea early in the day; a characteristic symptom in the early months of pregnancy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("morning sickness" is a kind of...):

nausea; sickness (the state that precedes vomiting)

Holonyms ("morning sickness" is a part of...):

gestation; maternity; pregnancy (the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus)