1) American play 2) Certain hospital ward 3) Certain ward 4) French word used in English 5) Gestation 6) Kind of ward 7) Motherhood 8) Motherliness 9) Parenthood 10) Physiological condition 11) Physiological state 12) Play based on other play 13) Pregnancy 14) The state of being pregnant 1) Eccyesis 2) Fatherhood 3) Gravida 4) Gravidation 5) Gravidity 6) Gravidness 7) Maternalism 8) Metacyesis 9) Motherhood 10) Motherliness 11) Para 12) Parenthood 13) Parity 14) Parous 15) Pregnancy 
[play] Maternity is a dramatic three act play that opened January 6, 1915, at the Princess Theatre on Broadway starring Richard Bennett. An English language version of Eugène Brieux`s French play, Maternité (1904), the work was translated by Benjamin F. Blanchard. The play`s book was adapted by Richard Bennett, whose Purpose Play Society ...
• (n.) The state of being a mother; the character or relation of a mother.
Motherhood. ... Origin: see maternal ... (05 Mar 2000) ... 
Ma·ter'ni·ty noun [ French maternité , Late Latin maternitas .] The state of being a mother; the character or relation of a mother. 
Type: Term Pronunciation: mă-ter′ni-tē Definitions: 1. Motherhood.
maternity 1. The condition of being a mother. 2. The characteristics and emotions traditionally associated with being a mother such as loving kindness and protectiveness. 3. A ward, floor, or other section of a hospital where mothers and newborn babies are cared for.
the state of being pregnant