Definition of "maternity ward" []

• The department of a hospital that provides care for women during pregnancy and childbirth as well as for newborn infants. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "By the spring a four-bed maternity ward was opened, where my mother delivered fifteen babies."
• "ARRIVING home fresh from the maternity ward closely clutching a newborn is like taking delivery of a jet plane without knowing how to fly."