mother
Other forms: mothers; mothering; mothered
A mother is a female parent: mothers nurture and mother children. It's also a term for an elderly woman or mother superior.
Your mother is the woman who gave birth to you: mothers are parents, the female equivalent of a father. Besides biological mothers, there are stepmothers and adopted mothers: they all do mothering, which means taking care of children (or, sometimes, being overprotective of children). Oddly enough, a mother is also slimy substance that forms during the fermentation of wine or cider. But in any case, mothers give and sustain life.
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a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)“the mother of three children”synonyms: female parentantonyms:fathera male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)examples:Blessed Virginthe mother of Jesus; Christians refer to her as the Virgin Mary; she is especially honored by Roman Catholicstypes:materan informal use of the Latin word for mother; sometimes used by British schoolboys or used facetiouslymother-in-lawthe mother of your spousepuerperaa woman in childbirth or shortly thereafterquadripara(obstetrics) woman who has given birth to a viable infant in each of four pregnanciesquintipara(obstetrics) woman who has given birth to a viable infant in each of five pregnanciessupermoman informal term for a mother who can combine childcare and full-time employmentsurrogate mothera woman who bears a child for a couple where the wife is unable to do sotype of:parenta father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian
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a term of address for an elderly womantype of:old womana woman who is old
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a term of address for a mother superior
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care for like a mothersynonyms: fuss, overprotect
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make children
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a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation“necessity is the mother of invention”type of:inspirationarousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity
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a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar
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Hit the mother lode and learn these words derived from the Latin root māter and the Greek root metèr, both meaning "mother."