mom

Definitions

1. Initialism of middle of the market.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, middle
2. One’s mother.
   informal
3. A surname from Khmer.
4. prefix of a female commoner who marries a royal prince.
5. Initialism of message-oriented middleware, hardware or software infrastructure supporting sending and receiving of messages between distributed systems.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
6. middle of month
7. used as a term of address for one's wife
   Canada, South-Africa, US, West-Midlands, broadly, colloquial, informal
8. Initialism of motive, opportunity, means (“factors to consider in investigating a crime”).
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
9. Mother.
10. An adult female owner of a pet.
    informal
11. Informal. mother.
12. middle of (the) month.
13. chiefly US and Canadian an informal word for mother1
    chiefly
14. A. N → mamá f
    N
15. B. CPD mom and pop store N → tienda f de la esquina, pequeño negocio m
    CPD

Equivalents

Examples

“To find⟳ out what moms really want⟳ this year, we turned to the best source possible: our own⟳ mothers.”

“At a very early age, Knowles says she was taught not to draw⟳ any attention to herself. “Pretty is as pretty does,” her mom used to say⟳.”

“(spoken by the father) I don't share⟳ it with mom! Right, mom?”

“I wish⟳ Mom and Dad didn't argue⟳ so much.”

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