queen mothern.

Brit.

/ˌkwiːn ˈmʌðə/, U.S.

/ˈkwin ˈməðər/

Forms: see queen n. and mother n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: queen n., mother n.¹

Etymology: < queen n. + mother n.¹ Compare post-classical Latin regina mater (1347 in a British source), Middle French reine mere (1559 as royne mère; French reine mère).

1. The widow of a king who is also the mother of the reigning monarch. Also (in form Queen Mother) used as a title.

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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > queen > [noun] > queen-dowager > who is mother of reigning queen

queen mother1560

mother queen1591

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > royalty > [noun] > royal person(s) > queen > queen-dowager

queen dowrier1548

Queen Dowager1556

queen mother1560

mother queen1591

queen-widowa1623

Queen Mum1953

1560 N. Throckmorton Let. 17 Nov. (P.R.O.: SP 70/20) f. 23^v I desired to speak w^t the Queen Mother, and so I was brought to her by monsieur de Lansac.

1577 J. Frampton tr. J. Liébault in tr. N. Monardes Three Bookes ii. f. 43 ^v He..did sende it to kyng Fraunces the seconde, and to the Queene Mother.

c1610 J. Melville Mem. Own Life (1683) 30 The Queen Mother knowing his [sc. the King of Navarr's] faculty.

1665 S. Pepys Diary 21 Jan. (1972) VI. 17 Mr. Povy carried me to Somersett-house and showed me the Queen-mother's chamber.

1671 in M. B. Johnston Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court Deeds (1939) I. 264 Servitor to the queine mother.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Regent In France, the Queen Mother has the Regency of the Kingdom, under the Title of Queen Regent, while the King is a Minor.

1768 H. Walpole Hist. Doubts 98 Why was not the queen-mother applied to..for his support and education?

1793 Times 4 Sept. 2/4 The first Regent would certainly endeavour to retain his authority over the young King, and the Queen-mother would as strenuously exert herself to undo that authority.

1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella II. i. xii. 5 The queen-mother, an artful woman, who, being of the blood royal of France, was naturally disposed to a union with that kingdom.

1853 F. D. Maurice Prophets & Kings Old Test. xi. 177 A usurpation by the queen-mother for six years follows.

1899 N.Y. Times 30 Nov. 6/6 They were welcomed in a most cordial manner by Queen Wilhelmina and the Queen mother.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. He [sc. Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim] was arrested..for some disparaging words about the queen-mother.

1952 C. Beaton Diary in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xviii. 240 The Queen Mother..was in her most jovial mood, enjoying every nuance of the play's humour with a hearty relish.

1975 Eastern Province (Port Elizabeth) Herald 22 Aug. 13 The Swazi Queen Mother ranks second to the King, and enjoys exclusive right to the title of Ndlovukasi, which means ‘great-she-elephant’.

1985 Daily Tel. 3 Aug. 5/1 In her last 33 years she has carved out an unprecedented role for herself as Queen Mother—a title, incidentally, that is not used in Royal circles. She is Queen Elizabeth, her daughter simply The Queen.

2002 B. Hoey Her Majesty ix. 128 Her maternal grandmother, Lady Fermoy, was not only a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, but also one of her closest and oldest friends.

a. A queen who is a mother. Also figurative.

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?1560 M. Cromer Notable Example Gods Vengeance sig. Aiiij^v, in T. Norton Orations of Aranes When shee hauing borne hym twoo sonnes..was once become a Queene mother, shee helde the wanton weake hart of her husband faste bounde in awe of her loue.

1595 W. Lisle tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Babilon 34 Then do I thee salute,..Thou brightly-shining Pearle, Queene-mother of languages.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 185 Let his Queene-mother all alone intreate him To show his griefe.

a1637 B. Jonson Eng. Gram. 19 in Wks. (1640) III It..is..the Queene mother of Consonants: yet she is the life and quickening of them.

a1658 J. Cleveland Myrtle-grove in Wks. (1687) 260 Clarinda rose..Like the Queen-mother of the Stars above.

1759 W. Hawkins Cymbeline v. 91 This gentleman, my Cadwal, is Arviragus, Your younger princely son; he, sir, was lapt In a most curious mantle, wrought by the hand Of his queen mother.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 24 May 5/1 For more than sixty years the Queen-mother has gone in and out among generations of Windsor people.

1911 ‘M. Field’ Dian iii. iii, in Trag. Pardon 248 Are you not left Queen-mother of a race She guards with care?

1931 Amer. Anthropologist 33 640 Other tales center on the abuse of a queen mother's child,..the exploits of a boy-hero,..the disguised animal bridegroom, and other familiar motifs.

1998 P. Gourevitch We wish to inform You vi. 80 On radio trottoir , Madame Agathe was called Kanjogera, after the wicked queen mother of Mwami Musinga, the Lady Macbeth of Rwandan legend.

b. A queen honeybee. Now rare.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > queen bee

kinga1398

rectora1398

king bee1565

master bee1579

prince1609

queen1609

queen bee1609

queen mother1753

mother queen1817

1753 T. Warton Eclogues & Georgics of Virgil I. 353 The mother-bee, or the queen-mother, is the soul of the community, and but for her, every thing would languish.

1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xviii. 118 The first fruits of the queen-mother's vernal parturition assist her.

1992 A. Bell tr. M. Toussaint-Samat Hist. Food i. 22 The microscope revealed that the ‘king’ bee was actually a queen, in fact a queen mother whose sole function was to lay millions of eggs from which her young would hatch.

3. More fully Queen Mother plum. A variety of plum with red skin and sweet flesh. Now rare.

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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > plum > other types of plum

bullacea1375

myxe?1440

prunelloa1450

bullace-fruit1530

wheat-plum1538

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pear plum1573

finger plum1577

perdrigon1582

damson plum1584

apple-plum1601

bullace-plum1608

amber plum1629

Christian1629

queen mother1629

cinnamon-plum1664

date1664

Orleans1674

Chickasaw plum1760

blue gage1764

golden drop1772

beach-plum1785

quetsch1839

egg-plum1859

hog plum1863

bladder-plum1869

prune1872

Carlsbad plum1885

apricot plum1893

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > plum > other types of

white plumc1330

bullacea1375

myxe?1440

prunelloa1450

bullace-fruit1530

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wheat-plum1538

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pear plum1573

finger plum1577

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merchant1602

bullace-plum1608

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prune plum1613

date plum1626

mussel plum1626

amber plum1629

black plum1629

primordian1629

queen mother1629

winter crack1629

myrobalan1630

Christian1651

Monsieur's plum1658

cinnamon-plum1664

date1664

primordial1664

Orleans1674

mirabelle1706

myrobalan plum1708

Mogul1718

mussel1718

Chickasaw plum1760

blue gage1764

magnum bonum1764

golden drop1772

beach-plum1785

sweet plum1796

winesour1836

wild plum1838

quetsch1839

egg-plum1859

Victoria1860

cherry plum1866

bladder-plum1869

prune1872

sour plum1874

Carlsbad plum1885

horse-jug1886

French plum1939

1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole iii. xiii. 576 The Muscadine plum, some call the Queene mother plumme, and some the Cherry plum.

1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 169 Plums..Saint Julian, Queen-Mother.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 547 The Queen Mother Plum one of the best sort.

1770 S. Foote Lame Lover iii. 62 A damsin plum..does pretty well indeed in a tart, but..to compare it with the queen mother, the padrigons [etc.].

1860 R. Hogg Fruit Man. 251 Queen Mother (Pigeon's Heart).—Fruit below medium size, round... Skin dark red next the sun... A dessert plum. Ripe in September.

1866 S. E. Todd Bridgeman's Amer. Gardener's Assist. (rev. ed.) App. 186 Red Queen Mother. The plum is of medium size, its color bright red and yellow, somewhat spotted, and covered with pale bloom.

1911 U. P. Hedrick Plums N.Y. 522 Queen Mother and Damas Violet have been confused for nearly three centuries, yet they are distinct.

Compounds

† queen mother herb n. (also queen mother's herb) [after Middle French herbe de la roine mere (1567 in the passage translated in quot. 1577; French herbe de la reine mère)] Obsolete rare tobacco (cf. queen's herb n. at queen n. Compounds 3c). So called after Catherine de Medici (1519–89, consort of Henri II of France and mother of Francis II and Charles IX), to whom it was sent by J. Nicot (1530–1600), then ambassador in Portugal (1558–60).

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding drug or narcotic > [noun] > tobacco-plant

nicotian1577

queen mother herb1577

queen's herb1577

tobacco1577

nicotiana1600

Frenchman1693

sot-weed1698

tobacco-plant1761

1577 J. Frampton tr. J. Liébault in Ioyfull Newes ii. f. 42 (margin) The Queene Mothers herbe.

1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas 396/2 Queene mother hearbe,..herba Reginae matris, quia Catharina de Medicis, trium Galline regum mater. habuit sibi donum herbam hane D. Iohanne Nicoto, q. primus eam in Galliam attulit. Vide Tabacco.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	queen mother
释义	queen mothern. Brit. /ˌkwiːn ˈmʌðə/, U.S. /ˈkwin ˈməðər/ Forms: see queen n. and mother n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: queen n., mother n.¹ Etymology: < queen n. + mother n.¹ Compare post-classical Latin regina mater (1347 in a British source), Middle French reine mere (1559 as royne mère; French reine mère). 1. The widow of a king who is also the mother of the reigning monarch. Also (in form Queen Mother) used as a title. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > queen > [noun] > queen-dowager > who is mother of reigning queen queen mother1560 mother queen1591 society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > royalty > [noun] > royal person(s) > queen > queen-dowager queen dowrier1548 Queen Dowager1556 queen mother1560 mother queen1591 queen-widowa1623 Queen Mum1953 1560 N. Throckmorton Let. 17 Nov. (P.R.O.: SP 70/20) f. 23^v I desired to speak w^t the Queen Mother, and so I was brought to her by monsieur de Lansac. 1577 J. Frampton tr. J. Liébault in tr. N. Monardes Three Bookes ii. f. 43 ^v He..did sende it to kyng Fraunces the seconde, and to the Queene Mother. c1610 J. Melville Mem. Own Life (1683) 30 The Queen Mother knowing his [sc. the King of Navarr's] faculty. 1665 S. Pepys Diary 21 Jan. (1972) VI. 17 Mr. Povy carried me to Somersett-house and showed me the Queen-mother's chamber. 1671 in M. B. Johnston Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court Deeds (1939) I. 264 Servitor to the queine mother. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Regent In France, the Queen Mother has the Regency of the Kingdom, under the Title of Queen Regent, while the King is a Minor. 1768 H. Walpole Hist. Doubts 98 Why was not the queen-mother applied to..for his support and education? 1793 Times 4 Sept. 2/4 The first Regent would certainly endeavour to retain his authority over the young King, and the Queen-mother would as strenuously exert herself to undo that authority. 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella II. i. xii. 5 The queen-mother, an artful woman, who, being of the blood royal of France, was naturally disposed to a union with that kingdom. 1853 F. D. Maurice Prophets & Kings Old Test. xi. 177 A usurpation by the queen-mother for six years follows. 1899 N.Y. Times 30 Nov. 6/6 They were welcomed in a most cordial manner by Queen Wilhelmina and the Queen mother. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. He [sc. Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim] was arrested..for some disparaging words about the queen-mother. 1952 C. Beaton Diary in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xviii. 240 The Queen Mother..was in her most jovial mood, enjoying every nuance of the play's humour with a hearty relish. 1975 Eastern Province (Port Elizabeth) Herald 22 Aug. 13 The Swazi Queen Mother ranks second to the King, and enjoys exclusive right to the title of Ndlovukasi, which means ‘great-she-elephant’. 1985 Daily Tel. 3 Aug. 5/1 In her last 33 years she has carved out an unprecedented role for herself as Queen Mother—a title, incidentally, that is not used in Royal circles. She is Queen Elizabeth, her daughter simply The Queen. 2002 B. Hoey Her Majesty ix. 128 Her maternal grandmother, Lady Fermoy, was not only a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, but also one of her closest and oldest friends. 2. a. A queen who is a mother. Also figurative. ΚΠ ?1560 M. Cromer Notable Example Gods Vengeance sig. Aiiij^v, in T. Norton Orations of Aranes When shee hauing borne hym twoo sonnes..was once become a Queene mother, shee helde the wanton weake hart of her husband faste bounde in awe of her loue. 1595 W. Lisle tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Babilon 34 Then do I thee salute,..Thou brightly-shining Pearle, Queene-mother of languages. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 185 Let his Queene-mother all alone intreate him To show his griefe. View more context for this quotation a1637 B. Jonson Eng. Gram. 19 in Wks. (1640) III It..is..the Queene mother of Consonants: yet she is the life and quickening of them. a1658 J. Cleveland Myrtle-grove in Wks. (1687) 260 Clarinda rose..Like the Queen-mother of the Stars above. 1759 W. Hawkins Cymbeline v. 91 This gentleman, my Cadwal, is Arviragus, Your younger princely son; he, sir, was lapt In a most curious mantle, wrought by the hand Of his queen mother. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 24 May 5/1 For more than sixty years the Queen-mother has gone in and out among generations of Windsor people. 1911 ‘M. Field’ Dian iii. iii, in Trag. Pardon 248 Are you not left Queen-mother of a race She guards with care? 1931 Amer. Anthropologist 33 640 Other tales center on the abuse of a queen mother's child,..the exploits of a boy-hero,..the disguised animal bridegroom, and other familiar motifs. 1998 P. Gourevitch We wish to inform You vi. 80 On radio trottoir , Madame Agathe was called Kanjogera, after the wicked queen mother of Mwami Musinga, the Lady Macbeth of Rwandan legend. b. A queen honeybee. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > queen bee kinga1398 rectora1398 king bee1565 master bee1579 prince1609 queen1609 queen bee1609 queen mother1753 mother queen1817 1753 T. Warton Eclogues & Georgics of Virgil I. 353 The mother-bee, or the queen-mother, is the soul of the community, and but for her, every thing would languish. 1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xviii. 118 The first fruits of the queen-mother's vernal parturition assist her. 1992 A. Bell tr. M. Toussaint-Samat Hist. Food i. 22 The microscope revealed that the ‘king’ bee was actually a queen, in fact a queen mother whose sole function was to lay millions of eggs from which her young would hatch. 3. More fully Queen Mother plum. A variety of plum with red skin and sweet flesh. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > plum > other types of plum bullacea1375 myxe?1440 prunelloa1450 bullace-fruit1530 wheat-plum1538 wheaten plum1542 pear plum1573 finger plum1577 perdrigon1582 damson plum1584 apple-plum1601 bullace-plum1608 amber plum1629 Christian1629 queen mother1629 cinnamon-plum1664 date1664 Orleans1674 Chickasaw plum1760 blue gage1764 golden drop1772 beach-plum1785 quetsch1839 egg-plum1859 hog plum1863 bladder-plum1869 prune1872 Carlsbad plum1885 apricot plum1893 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > plum > other types of white plumc1330 bullacea1375 myxe?1440 prunelloa1450 bullace-fruit1530 horse plum1530 plum1530 wheat-plum1538 wheaten plum1542 choke-plum1556 pear plum1573 finger plum1577 scad1577 skeg1601 merchant1602 bullace-plum1608 malacadonian1608 prune plum1613 date plum1626 mussel plum1626 amber plum1629 black plum1629 primordian1629 queen mother1629 winter crack1629 myrobalan1630 Christian1651 Monsieur's plum1658 cinnamon-plum1664 date1664 primordial1664 Orleans1674 mirabelle1706 myrobalan plum1708 Mogul1718 mussel1718 Chickasaw plum1760 blue gage1764 magnum bonum1764 golden drop1772 beach-plum1785 sweet plum1796 winesour1836 wild plum1838 quetsch1839 egg-plum1859 Victoria1860 cherry plum1866 bladder-plum1869 prune1872 sour plum1874 Carlsbad plum1885 horse-jug1886 French plum1939 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole iii. xiii. 576 The Muscadine plum, some call the Queene mother plumme, and some the Cherry plum. 1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 169 Plums..Saint Julian, Queen-Mother. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 547 The Queen Mother Plum one of the best sort. 1770 S. Foote Lame Lover iii. 62 A damsin plum..does pretty well indeed in a tart, but..to compare it with the queen mother, the padrigons [etc.]. 1860 R. Hogg Fruit Man. 251 Queen Mother (Pigeon's Heart).—Fruit below medium size, round... Skin dark red next the sun... A dessert plum. Ripe in September. 1866 S. E. Todd Bridgeman's Amer. Gardener's Assist. (rev. ed.) App. 186 Red Queen Mother. The plum is of medium size, its color bright red and yellow, somewhat spotted, and covered with pale bloom. 1911 U. P. Hedrick Plums N.Y. 522 Queen Mother and Damas Violet have been confused for nearly three centuries, yet they are distinct. Compounds † queen mother herb n. (also queen mother's herb) [after Middle French herbe de la roine mere (1567 in the passage translated in quot. 1577; French herbe de la reine mère)] Obsolete rare tobacco (cf. queen's herb n. at queen n. Compounds 3c). So called after Catherine de Medici (1519–89, consort of Henri II of France and mother of Francis II and Charles IX), to whom it was sent by J. Nicot (1530–1600), then ambassador in Portugal (1558–60). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding drug or narcotic > [noun] > tobacco-plant nicotian1577 queen mother herb1577 queen's herb1577 tobacco1577 nicotiana1600 Frenchman1693 sot-weed1698 tobacco-plant1761 1577 J. Frampton tr. J. Liébault in Ioyfull Newes ii. f. 42 (margin) The Queene Mothers herbe. 1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas 396/2 Queene mother hearbe,..herba Reginae matris, quia Catharina de Medicis, trium Galline regum mater. habuit sibi donum herbam hane D. Iohanne Nicoto, q. primus eam in Galliam attulit. Vide Tabacco. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1560
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