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‖ ˌAlma ˈMater
[L. alma māter bounteous mother.]
A title given by the Romans to several goddesses, especially to Ceres and Cybele, and transferred in Eng. to Universities and schools regarded as ‘fostering mothers’ to their alumni.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiv. ii. (1495) 466 In signe and token of grete plente, a grete female ymage was made, and callyd Alma mater. 1718Pope Dunc. iii. 338 Till Isis' elders reel..And Alma Mater lye dissolv'd in port. 1803Scott in Lockhart Life (1839) II. 126 The literary men of his Alma Mater. 1866Carlyle Inaug. Addr. 170 My dear old Alma Mater. |