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Meaning of mother lode | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A large or rich vein of gold or of another precious mineral from which other branches extend.
  2. Any source of valuable or useful material.
    broadly, idiomatic

Equivalents

Deutsch Hauptader
Español veta madre
Suomi emosuoni
Français filon principal
Nederlands hoofdader

Examples

“Undeterred, reasoning from the coarseness of the gold that it had not traveled far, they had set out in search of the mother lode.”
“It is also letting them probe the genomes of other organisms for DNA that could turn out to be a mother lode for medicine.”
“Emerging, but No Longer a Mother Lode of Profits [title]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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