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English

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Pronunciation


Etymology 1

From {{term|moder||mother}} < < < . Cognates include Modern Greek {{term|sc=Grek|μητέρα|tr=mētéra}}, German , Common Slavic * (Russian {{term|sc=Cyrl|мать|tr=mat’}}), Latin , Persian {{term|sc=fa-Arab|مادر|tr=madar|lang=fa}}, Mycenaean Greek {{term|𐀔𐀳𐀩|sc=Linb|tr=ma-te-re|lang=gmy}}, and Sanskrit {{term|मातृ|sc=Deva|tr=mātṛ|lang=sa}}.

Adjective

  1. In the Context of A title of respect for one's mother-in-law.
  2. : Mother Smith, meet my cousin, Doug Jones.


Noun

  1. A woman who has, conceives, gives birth to, or raises a child.
  2. : My sister-in-law has just become a mother.
  3. : Nutrients and oxygen obtained by the mother are conveyed to the fetus.
  4. One’s female parent.
  5. : I am visiting my mother today.
  6. A female ancestor.
  7. A source or origin, viewed affectionately.
  8. : The Mediterranean was mother to many cultures and languages.
  9. A female parent of an animal.
  10. : The lioness was a mother of four cubs.


Synonyms


Antonyms


Hypernyms


Quotations

one’s female parent

  • 1988: “He had something of his mother in him, but this was because he realized that in the end only her love was unconditional, and in gratitude he had emulated her.” — Second Son, Robert Ferro


a woman who has, conceives, gives birth to, or raises a child

  • 1991: "The antiabortion iconography in the last decade featured the fetus but never the mother." — The Undeclared War Against American Women, Susan Faludi.


References
  • 1 Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company 2003.


Derived terms


Translations

Verb

  1. To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.


Translations
  • Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|chăm sóc|xs=Vietnamese}}, {{t+|vi|nuôi|xs=Vietnamese}}, {{t+|vi|nuôi nấng|xs=Vietnamese}}

Etymology 2

Calque of Arabic {{Arab|ام|أم}} (’umm, mother).

Noun

  1. Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
  2. : "The great duel, the mother of all battles has begun." — w:Saddam Hussein|Saddam Hussein


Translations
  • Catalan: mare
  • Finnish:
  • German: {{t+|de|Mutter|f}}
  • Hebrew: אֵם (em)
  • Latin:
  • Slovene: {{t+|sl|mati|f}}

Etymology 3

Shortened from

Alternative spellings


Noun

  1. In the Context of motherfucker.


Synonyms


Translations

See motherfucker

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mother

Noun

Synonyms


Colloquial or slang synonyms


See also

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Mauther \Mau"ther\ (m[add]"[th][~e]r), n. [Cf. AS. maeg[thorn] a
maid.] [Also spelled mawther, mother.]
A girl; esp., a great, awkward girl; a wench. [Prov. Eng.]
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Mother \Moth"er\ (m[u^][th]"[~e]r), n. [OE. moder, AS. m[=o]dor;
akin to D. moeder, OS. m[=o]dar, G. mutter, OHG. muotar,
Icel. m[=o][eth]ir, Dan. & Sw. moder, OSlav. mati, Russ.
mate, Ir. & Gael. mathair, L. mater, Gr. mh`thr, Skr.
m[=a]t[.r]; cf. Skr. m[=a] to measure. [root]268. Cf.
Material, Matrix, Metropolis, Father.]
1. A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a
woman who has borne a child.
[1913 Webster]

2. That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of
birth or origin; generatrix.
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Alas! poor country! . . . it can not
Be called our mother, but our grave. --Shak.
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I behold . . . the solitary majesty of Crete, mother
of a religion, it is said, that lived two thousand
years. --Landor.
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3. An old woman or matron. [Familiar]
[1913 Webster]

4. The female superior or head of a religious house, as an
abbess, etc.
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5. Hysterical passion; hysteria. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Mother Carey's chicken (Zool.), any one of several species
of small petrels, as the stormy petrel ({Procellaria
pelagica}), and Leach's petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa),
both of the Atlantic, and Oceanodroma furcata of the
North Pacific.

Mother Carey's goose (Zool.), the giant fulmar of the
Pacific. See Fulmar.

Mother's mark (Med.), a congenital mark upon the body; a
birthmark; a naevus.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Mother \Moth"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mothered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Mothering.]
To adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a
mother to.
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The queen, to have put lady Elizabeth besides the
crown, would have mothered another body's child.
--Howell.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Mother \Moth"er\, n. [Akin to D. modder mud, G. moder mold, mud,
Dan. mudder mud, and to E. mud. See Mud.]
A film or membrane which is developed on the surface of
fermented alcoholic liquids, such as vinegar, wine, etc., and
acts as a means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the
alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid, thus
leading to their oxidation.
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Note: The film is composed of a mass of rapidly developing
microorganisms of the genus Mycoderma, and in the
mother of vinegar the microorganisms ({Mycoderma
aceti}) composing the film are the active agents in the
Conversion of the alcohol into vinegar. When thickened
by growth, the film may settle to the bottom of the
fluid. See Acetous fermentation, under
Fermentation.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Mother \Moth"er\, a.
Received by birth or from ancestors; native, natural; as,
mother language; also acting the part, or having the place of
a mother; producing others; originating.
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It is the mother falsehood from which all idolatry is
derived. --T. Arnold.
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Mother cell (Biol.), a cell which, by endogenous divisions,
gives rise to other cells (daughter cells); a parent cell.


Mother church, the original church; a church from which
other churches have sprung; as, the mother church of a
diocese.

Mother country, the country of one's parents or ancestors;
the country from which the people of a colony derive their
origin.

Mother liquor (Chem.), the impure or complex residual
solution which remains after the salts readily or
regularly crystallizing have been removed.

Mother queen, the mother of a reigning sovereign; a queen
mother.

Mother tongue.
(a) A language from which another language has had its
origin.
(b) The language of one's native land; native tongue.

Mother water. See Mother liquor (above).

Mother wit, natural or native wit or intelligence.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Mother \Moth"er\, v. i.
To become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as
vinegar.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English mother \moth"er\ (m[u^][th]"[~e]r), n. [Shortened from
motherfucker as a euphemism.]
1. Same as motherfucker. [Vulgar slang]
[PJC]

2. A person or thing with some exceptional quality, as great
size or power; as, a grizzly stuck his nose in my tent and
I grabbed my pistol and shot the mother. [Slang]
[PJC]
WordNet mother
n 1: a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term
of address to your mother); "the mother of three
children" [syn: female parent] [ant: father, father]
2: a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and
bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider
or wine to produce vinegar
3: a term of address for an elderly woman
4: a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or
situation; "necessity is the mother of invention"
v 1: care for like a mother; "She fusses over her husband" [syn:
fuss, overprotect]
2: make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father
children but don't recognize them" [syn: beget, get, engender,
father, sire, generate, bring forth]
Moby Dictionary
SOB , agent , ancestorial , ancestors , ancestral , apprentice ,
architect , artificer , artist , attend to , aunt , auntie , author ,
baby , baby-sit , bastard , bear , beget , begetter , beginner , birth ,
blood brother , breed , breed true , brethren , bring to birth ,
brother , bub , bubba , bud , buddy , bugger , builder , care for ,
catalyst , causer , chaperon , cherish , coddle , conceiver , conserve ,
constructor , copulate , cosset , country cousin , cousin ,
cousin once removed , cousin twice removed , cradle , craftsman ,
creator , creep , crossbreed , cultivate , dam , daughter , designer ,
deviser , discoverer , dry-nurse , effector , engender , engenderer ,
engineer , executor , executrix , fart , father , fatherlike , fatherly ,
feed , first cousin , fondle , foster , foster brother , foster mother ,
founder , frater , generate , generator , genesis , genetrix , get ,
give birth to , grandfatherly , grandmotherly , grandnephew ,
grandniece , grandparental , granduncle , great-aunt , great-uncle ,
grower , half brother , heel , hood , hooligan , inaugurator , inbreed ,
indulge , industrialist , initiator , innate , inspirer , instigator ,
institutor , introducer , inventor , jerk , journeyman ,
keep watch over , kid brother , lavish care on , look after ,
look out for , look to , louse , ma , make love , maker , mam , mama ,
mamma , mammy , manufacturer , master , master craftsman , mater ,
materfamilias , maternal , maternal ancestor , matriarch , matronize ,
maw , meanie , mind , minister to , mom , mommy , motherlike , motherly ,
mover , multiply , mum , mummy , native , natural , nephew , niece ,
nourish , nuncle , nunks , nunky , nurse , nurture , nurturer , old ,
old lady , old woman , organizer , origin , originator , outbreed ,
pamper , parent , parental , past master , paternal , patriarchal , pill ,
planner , precursor , preserve , prime mover , primum mobile ,
procreate , producer , progenitrix , proliferate , propagate , protect ,
protege , provide for , raiser , rat , realizer , reproduce in kind ,
ride herd on , second cousin , see after , see to , serve , shaper ,
shelter , shepherd , shit , shithead , shitheel , sire , sis , sissy ,
sister , sister-german , sistern , smith , son , source , spoil ,
spoon-feed , stepbrother , stepmother , stepsister , stinkard , stinker ,
suckle , support , sustain , take care of , take charge of , tend ,
the old woman , turd , unc , uncle , uncs , uterine brother , wait on ,
watch , watch out for , watch over , wellspring , wet-nurse , wright


FOLDOC mother

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MOTHER, domestic relations. A woman who has borne a child. 2. It is generally the duty of a mother to support her child, when she is left a widow, until he becomes of age, or is able to maintain himself; 8 Watts, R. 366; and even after he becomes of age, if he be chargeable to the public, she may, perhaps, in all the states, be compelled, when she has sufficient means, to support him. But when the child has property sufficient for his support, she is not, even during his minority, obliged to maintain him. 1 Bro. C. C. 387; 2 Mass. R. 415; 4 Miss. R. 97. 3. When the father dies without leaving a testamentary guardian, at common law, the mother is entitled to be the guardian of the person and estate of the infant, until he arrives at fourteen years, when he is able to choose a guardian. Litt. sect. 123; 3 Co. 38; Co. Litt. 84 b; 2 Atk. 14; Com Dig. B, D, E; 7 Ves. 348. See 10 Mass. 135, 140; 15 Mass. 272; 4 Binn. 487; 4 Stew. & Part. 123; 2 Mass. 415; Harper, R. 9; 1 Root, R. 487. 4. In Pennsylvania, the orphans' court will, in such case, appoint a guardian until the infant shall attain his fourteenth year. During the joint lives of the parents, (q.v.) the father (q.v.) is alone responsible for the support of the children; and has the only control over them, except when in special cases the mother is allowed to have possession of them. 1 P. A. Browne's Rep. 143; 5 Binn. R. 520; 2 Serg. & Rawle 174. Vide 4 Binn. R. 492, 494. 5. The mother of a bastard child, as natural guardian, has a right to the custody and control of such child, and is bound to maintain it. 2 Mass. 109; 12 Mass. 387, 433; 2 John. 375; 15 John. 208; 6 S. & R. 255; 1 Ashmead, 55.
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