Meaning of mother | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One's mother.
   dated
2. A title given to a nun or a priestess.
3. A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
4. Motherfucker.
   euphemistic, mildly, slang, vulgar
5. mother (source or origin)
6. 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.
7. A title given to the personification of a force of nature or abstract concept, such as Mother Nature, Mother Russia, or Mother Earth.
8. A female who has given birth to a baby; this person in relation to her child or children.
9. A striking example. (Appears as "mother of a(n) __".)
   colloquial, euphemistic
10. To act or serve as a mother.
11. mother (nun)
12. A pregnant female; mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.
13. A stringy slime composed of yeast cells and bacteria that forms on the surface of fermenting liquids and is added to wine or cider to start the production of vinegar.
14. riverbed
15. A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.
16. a stringy, viscid film of yeast cells and various bacteria that forms on a fermenting liquid and is used to ferment other liquids, as in changing cider to vinegar.
17. dregs (of a drink)
18. A female ancestor.
    figuratively
19. a system of social order wherein final authority is vested in the mother or eldest female and in which descent is reckoned in the female line. — matriarchal, adj.
20. A source or origin.
    figuratively
21. tending to move toward or centering upon the mother.
22. Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. (See mother of all.)
23. tracing of descent through the mother’s side of a family. — matrilinear, adj.
24. A title of respect for one's mother-in-law.
    dated
25. an excessive attachment and devotion of children to their mothers, resulting in a child’s dependence and failure to achieve emotional emancipation.
26. A term of address for one's wife.
    dated
27. to care for as a mother does; to protect (sometimes too much). His wife tries to mother him. beskerm تَعْتَني عِنايَة الأم отглеждам proteger mateřsky pečovat (o) bemuttern være som en mor for φροντίζω σαν μάνα cuidar como una madre, criar emalikult hoolitsema مادرى کردن suojella dorloter לְטַפֵּל כְּמוֹ אִמָא मां की तरह ख्याल करना starati se materinski anyáskodik (vki felett) merawat annast sem móðir (fare da madre), (coccolare) 母のように世話する 어머니처럼 돌보다 motiniškai prižiūrėti rūpēties kā mātei men...
28. the state of being a mother. moederskap أُمومَه майчинство maternidade mateřství die Mutterschaft moderskab μητρότηταmaternidad emadus مادرى äitiys maternité אִמָהוּת मातृत्व majčinstvo anyaság fungsi ibu það að vera móðir; móðurhlutverk maternità 母性 모성애 motinystė mātes stāvoklis keibuan moederschapmorskap, det å være mormacierzyństwo مور ګلوى maternidade maternitate материнство materstvo materinstvo majčinstvo moderskap ความเป็นแม่ annelik, analık 為人母 материнство امومت tình mẹ 母亲身份
29. Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
    figuratively
30. having no mother. The children were left motherless by the accident. moederloos بِدون أم، يَتيم без майка sem mãe bez matky mutterlos moderløs ορφανός από μητέρα huérfano de madre ematu بى مادر äiditön sans mère חֲסַר אֵם मातृहीन bez majke anyátlan (árva) tanpa ibu móðurlaus senza madre, orfano 母のない 어머니가 없는 be motinos, našlaitis bez mātes-; bārenis tidak ada ibu moederloosmorløs osierocony بى موره sem mãe orfan de mamă, fără mamă лишённый матери bez matky brez matere bez majke moderlös ซึ่งไม...
31. Any person or entity which performs mothering.
    figuratively
32. 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.
33. A locomotive which provides electrical power for a slug.
34. The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
35. The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
36. Hysterical passion; hysteria; the uterus.
    obsolete
37. A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
38. A person who is admired, respected, or looked up to within a particular fandom or community; see also: serve cunt

Equivalents

Examples

“I am visiting my mother today.”

“The lioness was a mother of four cubs.”

“My sister-in-law has just become a mother for the first time.”

“He had something of his mother in him.”

“He had something of his mother in him, but this was because he realized that in the end only her love was unconditional, and in gratitude he had emulated her.”

“The "Ritual to Celebrate Birthing" begins with a leader welcoming all participants : "Welcome to this celebration for N. She is approaching the time when she will become a mother for the first time (or become a mother again).”

“In many countries, up to 1 in 5 new mothers experience a mood or anxiety disorder. Unfortunately, these conditions often go undiagnosed and untreated due to lack of awareness and stigma, and everyone pays the price. […] To find out more, I spoke with CNN wellness expert Dr. Leana Wen. Wen, a mother of two young kids, is an emergency physician and adjunct associate professor at the George Washington University.”

“Nutrients and oxygen obtained by the mother are conveyed to the fetus.”

“The antiabortion iconography in the last decade featured the fetus but never the mother.”

“To clone a boy, it is necessary to have a man as a DNA donor, a woman as an egg donor, and may be another woman as a surrogate mother.”

“If the cat to be cloned is female, the nucleus donor cat could also be used as the surrogate mother instead of another cat.”

“And Adã called his wyfe Heua⸝ becauſe ſhe was the mother of all that lyveth”

“Near-synonym: matrix”

“The Mediterranean was mother to many cultures and languages.”

“Alas poore Countrey, / Almoſt affraid to know it ſelfe. It cannot / Be call’d our Mother, but our Graue;”

“But one in the place of God and not God, is as it were a falsehood; it is the mother falsehood from which all idolatry is derived.”

“How on earth are we supposed to hold our heads high as the ‘mother of parliaments’ when we allow to continue the practice of almost openly buying a seat in parliament?”

“Near-synonym: Big One”

“1991, January 17, Saddam Hussein, Broadcast on Baghdad state radio. The great duel, the mother of all battles has begun.”

“Mother Smith, meet my cousin, Doug Jones.”

“A few minutes later we were all seated comfortably, Uncle Dave and mother, as he called his wife, myself and my husband, in the split-bottomed wooden chairs, on the vine-covered porch. / “Is Bethel a Methodist Church?” I asked. / Uncle Dave looked quizzically at his wife. “Do you hear that, mother?” he said.”

“On some days as he got near the house he would call out to his wife: / “Almighty Moses, Martha! who left the sprinkler on the grass?” / On other days he would call to her from quite a little distance off: “Hullo, mother! Got any supper for a hungry man?””

“(Mr. Hill enters. He crosses to Wife.) / Mr. Hill: Hello, mother. […] How are you? / Mrs. Hill: Nothing wrong, dear, I hope.”

“Near-synonyms: matron, matriarch”

“Judges 5:7, KJV. The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.”

“Galatians 4:26, KJV. Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.”

“pieces of mother ;   adding mother to vinegar”

“O how this mother ſwels vp toward my hart[…]”

“T.V. dicusseth tumors and mollifieth them, helps inflammations, rising of the mother and the epilepsie being burnt.”

“The Root hereof taken with Zedoary and Angelică, or without them, helps the rising of the Mother.”

“St Botolph's parish records ascribed three deaths to 'mother', an old name for the uterus.”

“(Burn, baby, burn) Disco inferno / (Burn, baby, burn) Burn the mother down”

“Stick a votive candle in it and fire that mother up, right?”

“Who run this mother”

“November, 1943 If ever, Cortney Anders promised himself, I get out of this mother of a thunderstorm there is a thing I will do if it is the last act of my life.”

“Some hot night there's gonna be one mother of a riot down here. Just wait." He'd been saying the same thing since 1958, five years of crying wolf.”

“Basically, we wind up with a program. One mother of a complex application.”

“Josh, whose fleshy face resembles a rhino's - beady wide-set eyes blinking between a mother of a snout”

“...different stages of life as represented by our Lady as Maiden, Mother, and Crone, as well as our Lord as Master, Father, and Sage.”

“The Lady is often thought of as having three aspects: Maiden, Mother, and Crone.”

“Mother Teresa Gertrude O’Sullivan, then Provincial, did not give higher education for Loreto nuns the same priority as had Mothers Gonzaga and Stanislaus.”

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