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▸ noun: A female who has given birth to a baby; this person in relation to her child or children.
▸ noun: A pregnant female; mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.
▸ noun: A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.
▸ noun: (figuratively) A female ancestor.
▸ noun: (figuratively) A source or origin.
▸ noun: Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. (See mother of all.)
▸ noun: (dated, when followed by a surname) A title of respect for one's mother-in-law.
▸ noun: (dated) A term of address for one's wife.
▸ noun: (figuratively) Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
▸ noun: (figuratively) Any person or entity which performs mothering.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: (rail transport) A locomotive which provides electrical power for a slug.
▸ noun: The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
▸ noun: The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Hysterical passion; hysteria; the uterus.
▸ noun: A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
▸ noun: (Stan Twitter, originally drag slang) A person who is admired, respected, or looked up to within a particular fandom or community; see also: serve cunt
▸ verb: (chiefly transitive) To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.)
▸ verb: (transitive) To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”).
▸ verb: (intransitive, of an alcohol) To develop mother.
▸ noun: (euphemistic, mildly vulgar, slang) Motherfucker.
▸ noun: (euphemistic, colloquial) A striking example. (Appears as "mother of a(n) __".)
▸ noun: (dated) One's mother.
▸ noun: (Wicca) One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Maiden and representing a woman older than a girlish Maiden but younger than an aged Crone.
▸ noun: A title given to a nun or a priestess.
▸ noun: A title given to the personification of a force of nature or abstract concept, such as Mother Nature, Mother Russia, or Mother Earth.
▸ noun: Alternative form of moth-er [A person (especially an entomologist) or animal that catches moths.]
Similar:
father,
beget,
engender,
sire,
generate,
fuss,
bring forth,
overprotect,
get,
female parent,
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Types:
stepmother,
adoptive mother,
birth mother,
surrogate mother,
foster mother,
wet nurse,
nanny,
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