Usually means: Mother, often primary caregiving parent.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word mum:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. mum: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mum: Merriam-Webster
  3. mum, mum, mum, mum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mum, mum, mum, mum, mum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mum: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mum: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mum, mum: Wordnik
  8. mum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Mum, mum: Wiktionary
  10. mum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mum: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Mum, mum: Dictionary.com
  14. mum (interj.), mum (n.1), mum (n.2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. mum: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. MUM, Mum (Eurovision song), Mum (TV series), Mum (deodorant), Mum (disambiguation), Mum (film), Mum (song), Mum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Mum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. mum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. mum: Rhymezone
  20. mum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. mum: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Mum: Britih-American Dictionary
  23. MUM: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. Mum: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. mum: FreeDictionary.org
  26. mum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. mum: TheFreeDictionary.com
  28. mum: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mum: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mum: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mum: Glossary of Herbs, Botanicals and Other Products
  2. mum: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MUM: Acronym Finder
  2. mum: Magic or Madness
  3. MUM: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. mum: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mum: Dictionary of Horticultural Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mum, mum, mum, mum, mum: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Turkish Food and Beverage Page (No longer online)

(Note: See muming as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (Commonwealth, Ireland, informal) Mother.
noun:  (chiefly US) A chrysanthemum.
noun:  (US, originally Texas) A decoration made originally of a real chrysanthemum but now usually an artificial (silk) flower combined with ribbons and marked with such indicators as the wearer's name, school name, the year, and so on; traditionally worn by girls at high school homecoming celebrations.
adjective:  (colloquial or archaic) Silent.
adjective:  (colloquial) Secret.
verb:  To act in a pantomime or dumb show.
verb:  (UK, slang, obsolete, transitive) To silence.
noun:  (obsolete) Silence.
noun:  A type of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany.
noun:  (informal) One’s mother.
noun:  (informal, dated) Alternative spelling of ma'am [Chiefly used as a form of address for a woman: contraction of madam.]

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