| 单词 | school mother |
| 释义 | > as lemmasschool mother school mother n. a person who takes the role of a mother for a child or children at school; spec. an older girl at a girls' school chosen to look after one or more younger ones (now rare). ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > schoolgirl > senior school mother1826 school mamma1850 1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 30 I..provided myself with a school-mother, a fine tall blooming girl. 1891 ‘Embe’ Stiya i. 4 My school-mother, in a voice so tender I shall never forget, said, ‘My dear girl, you must stop crying’. 1907 Bk. Rev. Digest 3 405/2 A boarding-school story for girls whose chief interest centers about a contest which is designed to reveal the girl best fitted to become the school-mother of a motherless child. 2002 F. Ware in J. J. Irvine In Search of Wholeness ii. 37 The teachers in Lipman's work were school mothers and advocates for students who were identified as at risk. < as lemmas |
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