| 单词 | mother of presidents |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMother of Presidents Mother of Presidents n. U.S. (originally) the State of Virginia; (now also) (more fully Modern Mother of Presidents) the State of Ohio. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States > specific states > Virginia Mother of Presidents1827 Mother of States1834 Mother of Commonwealths1879 the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States > specific states > Ohio Mother of Presidents1827 O1838 Yankee State1884 1827 A. Sherwood Gazetteer Georgia 98 James Monroe..was born in Va., the mother of Presidents. 1850 Congress. Globe App. 13 May 563/3 Virginia, the mother of Presidents, the Old Dominion. 1897 Chicago Rec. 8 Mar. 4/1 Ohio may claim to take rank with Virginia as a ‘mother of presidents’. 1904 N.Y. Tribune 12 June 8 Virginia concluded not to indorse any candidate. The ‘Mother of Presidents’ is a trifle particular. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §48/33 Ohio, Buckeye State, Modern Mother of Presidents, Scarlet Carnation State, [etc.]. 1998 Roanoke (Virginia) Times & World News (Nexis) 6 Dec. b1 ‘Virginia is the mother of presidents. We'd love to have another one,’ said Trixie Averill, who coordinated Allen's 1993 gubernatorial campaign. 1999 Dayton (Ohio) Daily News (Nexis) 10 Jan. 9 a Before it became known as ‘the Mother of Presidents’, the state of Ohio might well have deserved to be known as the Father of Impeachment. < as lemmas |
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