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mother lode

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

Españolveta madre
Françaisfilon principal
DeutschHauptader
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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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See also

mother may I Mother Monster mother nature Mother of all Bombs Mother of all Budgets mother of chapel

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