mother

[Moth·er]

A mother is a female parent: mothers nurture and mother children. It's also a term for an elderly woman or mother superior.

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A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.

Noun
a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation; "necessity is the mother of invention"

Noun
a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother); "the mother of three children"

Noun
a term of address for an elderly woman

Noun
a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar

Verb
make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don''t recognize them"

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Verb
care for like a mother; "She fusses over her husband"

n.
A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.

n.
That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix.

n.
An old woman or matron.

n.
The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc.

n.
Hysterical passion; hysteria.

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.

v. t.
To adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a mother to.

n.
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.

v. i.
To become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as vinegar.

Mother

Moth"er , n. [OE. moder, AS. m'd3dor; akin to D. moeder, OS. m'd3dar, G. mutter, OHG. muotar, Icel. m'd3&edh;ir, Dan. & Sw. moder, OSlav. mati, Russ. mate, Ir. & Gael. mathair, L. mater, Gr. mh`thr, Skr. m'bet&rsdot;; cf. Skr. m'be to measure. 'fb268. Cf. Material, Matrix, Metropolis, Father.] 1. A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child. 2. That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix.

Alas! poor country! ... it can not Be called our mother, but our grave.

I behold ... the solitary majesty of Crete, mother of a religion, it is said, that lived two thousand years.

3. An old woman or matron. [Familiar] 4. The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc. 5. Hysterical passion; hysteria. [Obs.] Shak. Mother Carey's chicken (Zo'94l.), 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 O. furcata of the North Pacific. -- Mother Carey's goose (Zo'94l.), the giant fulmar of the Pacific. See Fulmar. -- Mother's mark (Med.), a congenital mark upon the body; a n'91vus.

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.

It is the mother falsehood from which all idolatry is derived.

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.

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.

The queen, to have put lady Elizabeth besides the crown, would have mothered another body's child.

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. &hand; The film is composed of a mass of rapidly developing micro'94rganisms of the genus Mycoderma, and in the mother of vinegar the micro'94rganisms (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.

Mother

Moth"er, v. i. To become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as vinegar.

A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.

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.

To adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a mother to.

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.

To become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as vinegar.

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Usage Examples

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.

As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.