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Mother

Mother Meaning & Definition
Mother Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Mother?

[n] a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation; "necessity is the mother of invention"
[n] a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother); "the mother of three children"
[n] a term of address for an elderly woman
[n] a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar
[v] make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them"
[v] care for like a mother; "She fusses over her husband"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Mother: beget | bring forth | engender | father | female parent | fuss | generate | get | overprotect | sire

Related Terms | Find terms related to Mother: agent | ancestorial | ancestors | ancestral | apprentice | architect | artificer | artist | attend to | aunt | auntie | author | baby | baby-sit | bastard | bear | beget | begetter | beginner | birth | blood brother | breed | breed true | brethren | bring to birth | brother | bub | bubba | bud | buddy | bugger | builder | care for | catalyst | causer | chaperon | cherish | coddle | conceiver | conserve | constructor | copulate | cosset | country cousin | cousin | cousin once removed | cousin twice removed | cradle | craftsman | creator | creep | crossbreed | cultivate | dam | daughter | designer | deviser | discoverer | dry-nurse | effector | engender | engenderer | engineer | executor | executrix | fart | father | fatherlike | fatherly | feed | first cousin | fondle | foster | foster brother | foster mother | founder | frater | generate | generator | genesis | genetrix | get | give birth to | grandfatherly | grandmotherly | grandnephew | grandniece | grandparental | granduncle | great-aunt | great-uncle | grower | half brother | heel | hood | hooligan | inaugurator | inbreed | indulge | industrialist | initiator | innate | inspirer | instigator | institutor | introducer | inventor | jerk | journeyman | keep watch over | kid brother | lavish care on | look after | look out for | look to | louse | ma | make love | maker | mam | mama | mamma | mammy | manufacturer | master | master craftsman | mater | materfamilias | maternal | maternal ancestor | matriarch | matronize | maw | meanie | mind | minister to | mom | mommy | motherlike | motherly | mover | multiply | mum | mummy | native | natural | nephew | niece | nourish | nuncle | nunks | nunky | nurse | nurture | nurturer | old | old lady | old woman | organizer | origin | originator | outbreed | pamper | parent | parental | past master | paternal | patriarchal | pill | planner | precursor | preserve | prime mover | primum mobile | procreate | producer | progenitrix | proliferate | propagate | protect | protege | provide for | raiser | rat | realizer | reproduce in kind | ride herd on | second cousin | see after | see to | serve | shaper | shelter | shepherd | shit | shithead | shitheel | sire | sis | sissy | sister | sister-german | sistern | smith | SOB | son | source | spoil | spoon-feed | stepbrother | stepmother | stepsister | stinkard | stinker | suckle | support | sustain | take care of | take charge of | tend | the old woman | turd | unc | uncle | uncs | uterine brother | wait on | watch | watch out for | watch over | wellspring | wet-nurse | wright

See Also | barm | care | create | give care | inspiration | ma | Madonna | make | mama | mamma | mammy | Mary | mater | mom | momma | mommy | mother-in-law | mum | mummy | old woman | para I | parent | primipara | puerpera | quadripara | quintipara | surrogate mother | The Virgin | Virgin Mary | yeast

Mother In Webster's Dictionary

\Moth"er\, n. [OE. moder, AS. m[=o]dor; akin to D. moeder, OS. m[=o]dar, G. mutter, OHG. muotar, Icel. m[=o][eth]ir, Dan. & Sw. moder, OSlav. mati, Russ. mate, Ir. & Gael. mathair, L. mater, Gr. mh`thr, Skr. m[=a]t[.r]; cf. Skr. m[=a] to measure. [root]268. 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. --Shak. I behold . . . the solitary majesty of Crete, mother of a religion, it is said, that lived two thousand years. --Landor. 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["o]l.), 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["o]l.), the giant fulmar of the Pacific. See {Fulmar}. {Mother's mark} (Med.), a congenital mark upon the body; a n[ae]vus.
\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. --T. Arnold. {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.
\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. --Howell.
\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. Note: The film is composed of a mass of rapidly developing micro["o]rganisms of the genus {Mycoderma}, and in the {mother of vinegar} the micro["o]rganisms ({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}.
\Moth"er\, v. i. To become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as vinegar.

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