Usually means: Loving caregiver, guide, emotional anchor.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word mom:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. mom: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. MOM, mom: Merriam-Webster
  3. mom: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. MOM, mom: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mom: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mom: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mom, mom, mom: Wordnik
  8. mom: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. MOM, MoM, Mom, mom: Wiktionary
  10. mom: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mom: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mom: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. MOM, m.o.m: Dictionary.com
  14. mom: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. mom: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. M.O.M, MOM, Mom (Bonnie Tyler song), Mom (Futurama), Mom (TV series), Mom (disambiguation), Mom (film), Mom (season Mom+++(season+++1)), Mom (season 2), Mom (season 3), Mom (season 4), Mom (season 5), Mom (season 6), Mom (season 7), Mom: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. mom: Rhymezone
  18. Mom: American-Britih Dictionary
  19. MOM: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. mom: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. MOM: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. mom: FreeDictionary.org
  23. mom: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MOM: Investopedia

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. MOM (Message-Oriented Middleware): Linktionary Networking Glossary
  3. MOM: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mom: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MOM: Acronym Finder
  2. MOM: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mom: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. M.O.M, Mom, m.o.m: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mom: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

(Note: See moming as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (Canada, South Africa, US, West Midlands, colloquial, informal) Mother.
noun:  (by extension) used as a term of address for one's wife
noun:  (informal) An adult female owner of a pet.
verb:  (transitive, Canada, US, informal) To care for in a motherly way.
noun:  (informal) One’s mother.
noun:  A surname from Khmer.
noun:  prefix of a female commoner who marries a royal prince.
adjective:  (statistics) Initialism of month-over-month/month-on-month; compared to the same time period in the previous month.
noun:  Initialism of middle of the market.
noun:  (hardware, software) Initialism of message-oriented middleware (hardware or software infrastructure supporting sending and receiving of messages between distributed systems.) [(computing) Hardware or software infrastructure supporting sending and receiving of messages between distributed systems]
noun:  Initialism of motive, opportunity, means (“factors to consider in investigating a crime”). [(obsolete) An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting.]

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