mother
母亲,妈妈,母,娘
Related Words
Definitions
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- : a female parent.
- : one's female parent.
- : a mother-in-law, stepmother, or adoptive mother.
- : a term of address for a female parent or a woman having or regarded as having the status, function, or authority of a female parent.
- : a term of familiar address for an old or elderly woman.
- : mother superior.
- : a woman exercising control, influence, or authority like that of a mother: to be a mother to someone.
- : the qualities characteristic of a mother, as maternal affection: It is the mother in her showing itself.
- : something that gives rise to something else; origin or source: Idleness is the mother of possibility.
- : a woman who originates or creates something:the mother of computer science.
- : Slang. a euphemism for motherfucker.
- : Audio. a mold from which stampers are made.
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- : being a mother: a mother bird.
- : of, relating to, or characteristic of a mother: mother love.
- : derived from or as if from one's mother; native: his mother culture.
- : bearing a relation like that of a mother, as in being the origin, source, or protector: the mother company and its affiliates; the mother computer and its network of terminals.
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- : to be the mother of; give origin or rise to: She mothered two children.
- : to acknowledge oneself the author of; assume as one's own.
- : to care for or protect like a mother; act maternally toward, sometimes in an excessive way: It’s in her nature to love and mother those around her.Stop mothering me!
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- : to perform the tasks or duties of a female parent, sometimes in an excessive way; act maternally: She’s always wanted to mother.
Phrases
- mother of
- necessity is the mother of invention
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Though a mother of a US citizen who had lived in the US for decades would typically be able to apply for deportation relief, Binam’s conviction and plea deal made her ineligible.
In one spot, a mother in Texas shares the story of her son who has leukemia.
In the same way my mother thought she knew what she would name me before I was born, I thought I knew where I would bury her before she died.
Quannah Chasing Horse Potts said Mallott never propositioned her and that neither she nor her mother spoke to Downing.
Psychologists Don Moore, of the University of California, Berkeley, and Max Bazerman of Harvard, call it “the mother of all biases” in their textbook on decision making.
Taraji manages to bring an equal measure of truth to the mother in her character.
Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
But my sources, my young women and their mother, heroically held firm.
I thought about the mother, her fear of the dark, of the harm she feared might come to her daughters.
Meanwhile two kids were taken from their mother when she flew back to the UK from Turkey.
There was no doubt thought of his own loss in this question: yet there was, one may hope, a germ of solicitude for the mother too.
"The Smoker," and "Mother and Daughter," a triptych, are two of her principal pictures.
Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
The mother's lips could not finish the charge she was about to put upon her innocent child.
The Authorised Version has: “And as a mother shall she meet him, and receive him as a wife married of a virgin.”