mother.
A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, fostered, etc).
Meaning & usage
A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, fostered, etc).
I am visiting my mother any moment.
The lioness was a mother of four cubs.
A pregnant female; mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.
Nutrients and oxygen obtained by the mother are conveyed to the fetus.
A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.
A female ancestor.
A source or origin.
The Mediterranean was mother to many cultures and languages.
Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. (See mother of all.)
A title of respect for one's mother-in-law.
Mother Smith, meet my cousin, Doug Jones.
A term of address for one's wife.
Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
Any person or entity which performs mothering.
Dregs, lees; a stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance (consisting of a culture of acetobacters) which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids (such as wine, or cider), and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air.
pieces of mother ; adding mother to vinegar
A locomotive which provides electrical power for a slug.
The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
Hysterical passion; hysteria; the uterus.
A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
A person who is admired, respected, or looked up to within a particular fandom or community; see also: serve cunt
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr Proto-Germanic *mōdēr Proto-West Germanic *mōder Old English mōdor Middle English moder English mother From Middle English moder, from Old English mōdor, from Proto-West Germanic *mōder, from Proto-Germanic *mōdēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Doublet of Madeira, mata, mater, matrix, and matter. Some have proposed that the "dregs" sense is from Middle Dutch modder (“filth”), from Proto-Germanic *muþraz (“sediment”), but modder is not known in this meaning. On the other hand, words for "mother" have developed the secondary sense of "dregs" in several Romance and Germanic languages; compare Dutch moer, French mère de vinaigre, German Essigmutter, Italian madre, Medieval Latin māter, and Spanish madre.
To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.)
To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”).
mothered oil, mothered vinegar, mothered wine
To develop mother.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English modren, from the noun (see above).
Motherfucker.
A striking example. (Appears as "mother of a(n) __".)
Where this word comes from
Clipping of motherfucker.
Alternative form of moth-er.
Where this word comes from
Coined from moth by analogy to mouser.
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