Definition of mother in English:

mother

noun ˈmʌðəˈməðər

1A woman in relation to her child or children.
she returned to Bristol to nurse her ageing mother
a mother of three
Example sentencesExamples
- In eight of these cities, more than 60% of births were to unwed mothers.
- His father and mother were very affectionate and I was fond of his family.
- We're going to be late to meet my parents and my mother hates to be kept waiting.
- It was my mother, my loving, caring mother who missed me more than words could say.
- His parents divorced and he had to take care of his mother and brother.
- To prove this she interviewed mothers who had given birth prematurely and discovered that a high proportion of them had suffered stress events in pregnancy.
- It is a fitting tribute from a daughter to her mother on her 75th birthday.
- A mother who gave birth outside a locked maternity unit has criticised health bosses for not keeping it open around the clock.
- He lives at home with his parents helping his mother care for his father, who has a debilitating illness.
- When Mother sold a story they had three-pennyworth of halfpenny buns for tea.
- My mother has my birth certificate, but she does not want anything to do with me any more.
- However, after my mother and father divorced, my mother, my two brothers and I moved to Scotsburn.
- Mr Marchant and his wife wanted to return to the UK to be near to their mothers, both of whom are elderly, and live in the south.
- My mother is caring and sweet to my siblings, but I haven't felt loved by her for years.
- He said his impression was that she was a good mother and took good care of her children.
- The average age of mothers who gave birth in 2000 was 30.
- Morana smiled slightly, at the thought of her mother and father watching out for her.
- Just ten months ago his mother, with whom he had lived all of his life, passed away.
- Six and a half years ago, my mother collapsed and was taken into hospital.
- Mr McGeehan said a minority of expectant mothers wanted to give birth at home.
- In 1962, there were more than 2,000 births to mothers who had 10 or more previous children.
- Now the youngest victim's mother has advised other parents to warn their children to take extra care.
- All those mothers now giving birth at the age of 45 or more should hope that their daughters don't follow their example.
- You know, the funny thing about sexism is that most young men, you included, have mothers and sisters whom they love and respect.
Synonyms
female parent, materfamilias, matriarch
biological mother, birth mother, foster mother, adoptive mother, stepmother, surrogate mother
informal ma, mam, mammy, old dear, old lady, old woman
British informal mum, mummy, mumsy
North American informal mom, mommy
British informal, dated mater
dated mama, mamma
Indian Mata
Indian informal amma
rare progenitress, progenitrix
1. 1.1 A female animal in relation to its offspring.
  as modifier a mother penguin
  Example sentencesExamples
  Orangutan offspring stay with their mothers until they're seven or eight years old, but orangutans are on the lower end of the sociability scale among great apes.
  Offspring and their mothers are inseparable during the first few years of the youngster's life.
  Females stay with their mothers, forming a group of related animals that co-operate to bring up and feed the latest litters of cubs.
  They are taught by their mothers or other bustards how to recognize and avoid foxes and other dangers.
  Mammals are the only major group of vertebrates in which mothers are more involved.
  The high female infection rate also spells trouble for the next generation of bears since infected mothers transmit the mites to their offspring.
  Till recently, they were feeding on the regurgitated food provided by the mother.
  Heifers are females before they become mothers; after that, they're called cows.
  The researchers positively identified the mothers of 371 individual bats and the fathers of 232.
  Shallow water may allow mothers and calves to detect and avoid predatory sharks.
  One of the non-orphan lambs is having a bottle now and then as its mother isn't caring for it.
  The mother flew off as usual but seemed no more agitated than she had been when guarding the eggs.
  Cubs live with their mothers for about a year and a half, when females often conceive again.
  Pups learn from their mothers how to forage and what prey items to look for as well as swimming and grooming behaviors.
  Competition for the few males is now so fierce that dominant females actively push young, would-be mothers out of the picture.
  I am frequently asked whether handling a baby bird will keep the mother from feeding it.
  Cub aggression, however, is not necessarily higher among offspring of high-ranking mothers, the study says.
  In Gombe Stream National Park, a chimpanzee sanctuary in western Tanzania, one of the primate mothers, Gremlin, was trying to wean her twins.
  Female baboons tend to form the tightest bonds with their mothers, aunts, and sisters.
  In contrast, zoo elephants are typically found in groups of two, and two-thirds of female calves are taken from their mothers at an early age.
  Synonyms
  dam
2. 1.2archaic (especially as a form of address) an elderly woman.
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘Mother,’ said the conductor, ‘do you want to go to Denver?’
3. 1.3as modifier Denoting an institution or organization from which others of the same type derive.
  the initiatives were based on the experience of the mother company
  Example sentencesExamples
  He argues that there is only one mother church, which is the Catholic church, so it is terminologically incorrect to call say the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches sister churches as it places them on a level of equality.
  In general, it is given the task of filling market niches in which the mother company does not compete.
4. 1.4 (especially as a title or form of address) the head of a female religious community.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Sr. Elizabeth Ann Eckert is the new reverend mother of the Anglican Sisterhood of St. John the Divine, succeeding Sr. Constance Joanna Gefvert.
  Mother Aquinas faced the decision with great courage and tact.
5. 1.5informal An extreme example or very large specimen of something.
  I got stuck in the mother of all traffic jams
  Example sentencesExamples
  The mother of all howlers was the prediction of future scarcity of resources in the 1970s.
  It sounds like the mother of all hangovers to me, but I may be being unfair - she suffers with a twisted spine.
  It looks like it's going to be the mother of all bottlenecks, and a super overpass will be needed.
  Irvine persuaded the city fathers to throw the mother of all parties.
  I'm feeling very sorry for myself today as I have the mother of all colds.
  Next, the restaurant lays out the mother of all meals, a Royal Thai degustation feast.
  Perhaps, the cricket coaches and psychologists should speak to them about how to motivate the team to win the mother of all cricketing contests.
  I was in the bathroom looking at myself in the mirror, psyching myself up for the mother of all Friday night parties.
  I look around to see, watching me, two glass bead eyes stitched onto the mother of all big handbags.
  I do not want to live through the Third World War which has the potential to be the Mother of all Wars.
  The mother of all Bulgarian potholes was a result of a five-year plan ending in 1987.
  But we suspect the anti-Europeans will very shortly wake up with the mother of all hangovers.
  They are the mother of all prawns and fetch handsome prices for those who net them from the wild.
  I then had a little something to eat and watched a little telly, although I still had the mother of all headaches.
  It's the mother of all tribal sectarian conflicts and it's hard to articulate it without taking sides.
  Fast forward to Saturday morning and I was having a lie down out in the sun with the mother of all hangovers.
  This bus station is being seen as the mother of all solutions to the grievances of bus commuters in Bangalore.
2North American vulgar slang
short for motherfucker

verb ˈmʌðəˈməðər

[with object]

1often as noun motheringBring up (a child) with care and affection.
the art of mothering
Example sentencesExamples
- She closely guards the privacy of her daughters, now five and three, only saying that she enjoys mothering and tries hard to spend time with them every day, although her schedule is always tight.
- Parenting, mothering in particular, requires a subtle intuitiveness for which there can never be adequate preparation in any job.
- It's as if Victoria wants to remembered for something else except for mothering David's kids, and being trampled on at the same time.
- Topics include mothering, fathering, marriages, family group processes, sibling relations, and families.
- I find it distressing to see in a lot of the news coverage of this issue, how it has forced women to belittle other women's mothering.
- I don't really have much of a social life - no time after a full day at work and then mothering for the rest of the time.
- One child, abandoned years earlier at hospital by his mother, has attached himself to Nancy, who mothers the orphan, discipline and all.
- In this line of thinking, what children in childcare require is substitute mothering.
- Mothers feel passionately about their children and about mothering, which they see as unique and extraordinarily important work.
- So I feel I can be a good role model as a mother because I love being a mom and I have great advice for everybody when it comes to mothering.
- The jobs available to low-skilled women, with few benefits, irregular hours, and little time off, are the least compatible with mothering.
- It is an acknowledgement of all the black women who have mothered other people's children.
- Yet today, at age 29, she spends her days at her home near Salt Lake City, Utah, mothering her three children, all under age 5.
- And I don't think you can do everything as well as it needs to be done when it comes to mothering when you have a schedule like mine.
- With a husband fighting in the war, likely to die at any moment, and a farm of wounded, vulgar soldiers, mothering a child would not be an easy task.
- In an exchange that emphasizes the way these two women interpret that love, Williams shows us how power relations affect mothering.
- Ben acted this way, I now remember, when I took a vacation from mothering.
- People in Angola get old before their time, be they press-ganged boy soldiers or little girls thrust abruptly into mothering baby sisters or daughters.
- In 1987 he married Fran who, as well as mothering his two children, Billy and Katie, is the co-writer and co-producer of all his films.
- But asked about the emphasis on mothering, activists say it hasn't played a significant role in contemporary feminist antiwar organizing.
Synonyms
bring up, care for, provide for, take care of, attend to, look after, rear, support, raise, foster, parent, tend
1. 1.1 Look after (someone) kindly and protectively, sometimes excessively so.
  she mothered her husband, insisting he should take cod liver oil in the winter
  Example sentencesExamples
  Margaret mothers him by sending others off to do his work and fetch him water.
  Mom, if you don't stop mothering him, he's going to come around every day.
  He's totally assured in the arena, but in moments of repose you want to mother him.
  Fluent in five languages, highly informed and a stickler for precise dates and details, she is equally at ease mothering me with biscuits, stuffing plant cuttings into my hands or scolding me for my dismal grasp of the Czech language.
  She was, of course, my sister, and I loved her, but I had never mothered her the way I had doted on Henry or - most of all - Maggie.
  She was still mad about that night but more than that, she didn't feel like being mothered by her sister.
  While she was never married and had no children of her own, she mothered a great many.
  She scolded him and generally mothered him as he insisted that he was completely fine, all the while biting back groans of pain.
  Odile is both drawn to and repelled by the boy; she wants him to leave but needs him to stay; she mothers him and flirts with him by turns.
  The checkouts were populated by a mixture of young girls and housewives, and for the most part they mothered me rotten.
  Anya nodded, but felt an annoyance at being mothered.
  She dominated the compartment and decided to wield her power over me as well, mocking my stuttering Hindi and mothering me by forcing me to eat.
  Working with Jane, who plays my mom, was great, though she did tend to mother me a lot.
  Women have a strong maternal instinct and have a hard time grasping that most men loathe being mothered - can she back off when you tell her to?
  The two girls worried constantly about each other, and Lauren mothered her all the time, checking that she was eating well, and was warm enough, and sleeping easily.
  He loved to be mothered by women and women loved to mother him.
  It's a good thing I trust those instincts of yours or I'd think you were mothering me.
  Her gay friends allow her to mother them without the drag of true responsibility.
  He was the youngest of four brothers and sister so he did get spoiled and I mothered him.
  What's more, the judge seems surely, perhaps instinctively, to be protecting him - mothering him.
  Synonyms
  look after, care for, take care of, nurture, nurse, protect, cherish, tend, raise, rear
  pamper, coddle, cosset, baby, overprotect, overparent, fuss over, indulge, spoil
2dated Give birth to.
she's mothered two foals that have gone on to be impressive dressage competitors
Example sentencesExamples
- Emma O'Leary mothered four sons before her husband ran off with another woman, leaving her to raise the boys on her own.
Synonyms
give birth to, have, deliver, bear, produce, bring forth
North American birth
informal drop
archaic be brought to bed of

Origin

Old English mōdor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch moeder and German Mutter, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin mater and Greek mētēr.

English mother, Dutch moeder, and German Mutter share their ancient ancestor with Latin mater (source of madrigal (late 16th century), maternal (Late Middle English), matriarch (late 16th century), matrimony (Late Middle English), matrix (Late Middle English), and matter (Middle English) the last two containing the idea of something from which something is made or born). The root probably came from the use of the sound ma made by babies, identified by mothers as a reference to themselves. The British expression some mothers do 'ave 'em, commenting on a person's clumsy or foolish behaviour, was apparently originally a Lancashire saying. The comic Jimmy Clitheroe popularized it, as ‘don't some mothers 'ave 'em, in his BBC radio programme The Clitheroe Kid, which ran from 1958 to 1972. The phrase gained further currency as the title of a 1970s BBC television comedy series Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, in which Michael Crawford starred as the clumsy, accident-prone Frank Spencer. The former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is remembered as having promised the mother of all battles on the eve of the first Gulf War. On 7 January 1991 The Times reported that he had no intention of relinquishing Kuwait and was ready for the ‘mother of all wars’. The proverb necessity is the mother of invention is first recorded in 1658, in Northern Memoirs by R. Franck: ‘Art imitates Nature, and Necessity is the Mother of Invention.’ The idea can be traced back further to classical times, to the Roman satirist Persius, who stated that ‘The belly is the teacher of art and giver of wit’.

Rhymes

another, brother, other, smother, t'other

Definition of mother in US English:

mother

nounˈməðərˈməT͟Hər

1A woman in relation to her child or children.
she returned to Bristol to nurse her aging mother
a mother of three
Example sentencesExamples
- Mr Marchant and his wife wanted to return to the UK to be near to their mothers, both of whom are elderly, and live in the south.
- His father and mother were very affectionate and I was fond of his family.
- He lives at home with his parents helping his mother care for his father, who has a debilitating illness.
- He said his impression was that she was a good mother and took good care of her children.
- When Mother sold a story they had three-pennyworth of halfpenny buns for tea.
- His parents divorced and he had to take care of his mother and brother.
- However, after my mother and father divorced, my mother, my two brothers and I moved to Scotsburn.
- Now the youngest victim's mother has advised other parents to warn their children to take extra care.
- To prove this she interviewed mothers who had given birth prematurely and discovered that a high proportion of them had suffered stress events in pregnancy.
- All those mothers now giving birth at the age of 45 or more should hope that their daughters don't follow their example.
- In 1962, there were more than 2,000 births to mothers who had 10 or more previous children.
- Mr McGeehan said a minority of expectant mothers wanted to give birth at home.
- The average age of mothers who gave birth in 2000 was 30.
- It was my mother, my loving, caring mother who missed me more than words could say.
- Just ten months ago his mother, with whom he had lived all of his life, passed away.
- Morana smiled slightly, at the thought of her mother and father watching out for her.
- My mother has my birth certificate, but she does not want anything to do with me any more.
- You know, the funny thing about sexism is that most young men, you included, have mothers and sisters whom they love and respect.
- A mother who gave birth outside a locked maternity unit has criticised health bosses for not keeping it open around the clock.
- In eight of these cities, more than 60% of births were to unwed mothers.
- Six and a half years ago, my mother collapsed and was taken into hospital.
- We're going to be late to meet my parents and my mother hates to be kept waiting.
- My mother is caring and sweet to my siblings, but I haven't felt loved by her for years.
- It is a fitting tribute from a daughter to her mother on her 75th birthday.
Synonyms
female parent, materfamilias, matriarch
1. 1.1 A female animal in relation to its offspring.
  as modifier a mother penguin
  Example sentencesExamples
  In Gombe Stream National Park, a chimpanzee sanctuary in western Tanzania, one of the primate mothers, Gremlin, was trying to wean her twins.
  I am frequently asked whether handling a baby bird will keep the mother from feeding it.
  The mother flew off as usual but seemed no more agitated than she had been when guarding the eggs.
  Cub aggression, however, is not necessarily higher among offspring of high-ranking mothers, the study says.
  One of the non-orphan lambs is having a bottle now and then as its mother isn't caring for it.
  The high female infection rate also spells trouble for the next generation of bears since infected mothers transmit the mites to their offspring.
  Mammals are the only major group of vertebrates in which mothers are more involved.
  Female baboons tend to form the tightest bonds with their mothers, aunts, and sisters.
  Offspring and their mothers are inseparable during the first few years of the youngster's life.
  They are taught by their mothers or other bustards how to recognize and avoid foxes and other dangers.
  Cubs live with their mothers for about a year and a half, when females often conceive again.
  Till recently, they were feeding on the regurgitated food provided by the mother.
  Orangutan offspring stay with their mothers until they're seven or eight years old, but orangutans are on the lower end of the sociability scale among great apes.
  Shallow water may allow mothers and calves to detect and avoid predatory sharks.
  Heifers are females before they become mothers; after that, they're called cows.
  Pups learn from their mothers how to forage and what prey items to look for as well as swimming and grooming behaviors.
  In contrast, zoo elephants are typically found in groups of two, and two-thirds of female calves are taken from their mothers at an early age.
  Females stay with their mothers, forming a group of related animals that co-operate to bring up and feed the latest litters of cubs.
  The researchers positively identified the mothers of 371 individual bats and the fathers of 232.
  Competition for the few males is now so fierce that dominant females actively push young, would-be mothers out of the picture.
  Synonyms
  dam
2. 1.2archaic (especially as a form of address) an elderly woman.
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘Mother,’ said the conductor, ‘do you want to go to Denver?’
3. 1.3as modifier Denoting an institution or organization from which more recently founded institutions of the same type derive.
  the mother church
  Example sentencesExamples
  In general, it is given the task of filling market niches in which the mother company does not compete.
  He argues that there is only one mother church, which is the Catholic church, so it is terminologically incorrect to call say the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches sister churches as it places them on a level of equality.
4. 1.4 (especially as a title or form of address) the head of a female religious community.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Mother Aquinas faced the decision with great courage and tact.
  Sr. Elizabeth Ann Eckert is the new reverend mother of the Anglican Sisterhood of St. John the Divine, succeeding Sr. Constance Joanna Gefvert.
2North American vulgar slang
short for motherfucker

verbˈməðərˈməT͟Hər

[with object]

1often as noun motheringBring up (a child) with care and affection.
the art of mothering
Example sentencesExamples
- Topics include mothering, fathering, marriages, family group processes, sibling relations, and families.
- I don't really have much of a social life - no time after a full day at work and then mothering for the rest of the time.
- The jobs available to low-skilled women, with few benefits, irregular hours, and little time off, are the least compatible with mothering.
- Yet today, at age 29, she spends her days at her home near Salt Lake City, Utah, mothering her three children, all under age 5.
- It's as if Victoria wants to remembered for something else except for mothering David's kids, and being trampled on at the same time.
- In 1987 he married Fran who, as well as mothering his two children, Billy and Katie, is the co-writer and co-producer of all his films.
- She closely guards the privacy of her daughters, now five and three, only saying that she enjoys mothering and tries hard to spend time with them every day, although her schedule is always tight.
- So I feel I can be a good role model as a mother because I love being a mom and I have great advice for everybody when it comes to mothering.
- Ben acted this way, I now remember, when I took a vacation from mothering.
- Parenting, mothering in particular, requires a subtle intuitiveness for which there can never be adequate preparation in any job.
- And I don't think you can do everything as well as it needs to be done when it comes to mothering when you have a schedule like mine.
- I find it distressing to see in a lot of the news coverage of this issue, how it has forced women to belittle other women's mothering.
- People in Angola get old before their time, be they press-ganged boy soldiers or little girls thrust abruptly into mothering baby sisters or daughters.
- It is an acknowledgement of all the black women who have mothered other people's children.
- In this line of thinking, what children in childcare require is substitute mothering.
- In an exchange that emphasizes the way these two women interpret that love, Williams shows us how power relations affect mothering.
- One child, abandoned years earlier at hospital by his mother, has attached himself to Nancy, who mothers the orphan, discipline and all.
- But asked about the emphasis on mothering, activists say it hasn't played a significant role in contemporary feminist antiwar organizing.
- With a husband fighting in the war, likely to die at any moment, and a farm of wounded, vulgar soldiers, mothering a child would not be an easy task.
- Mothers feel passionately about their children and about mothering, which they see as unique and extraordinarily important work.
Synonyms
bring up, care for, provide for, take care of, attend to, look after, rear, support, raise, foster, parent, tend
1. 1.1 Look after (someone) kindly and protectively, sometimes excessively so.
  she felt mothered by her older sister
  Example sentencesExamples
  She was, of course, my sister, and I loved her, but I had never mothered her the way I had doted on Henry or - most of all - Maggie.
  Margaret mothers him by sending others off to do his work and fetch him water.
  Anya nodded, but felt an annoyance at being mothered.
  Working with Jane, who plays my mom, was great, though she did tend to mother me a lot.
  The checkouts were populated by a mixture of young girls and housewives, and for the most part they mothered me rotten.
  Fluent in five languages, highly informed and a stickler for precise dates and details, she is equally at ease mothering me with biscuits, stuffing plant cuttings into my hands or scolding me for my dismal grasp of the Czech language.
  While she was never married and had no children of her own, she mothered a great many.
  She was still mad about that night but more than that, she didn't feel like being mothered by her sister.
  The two girls worried constantly about each other, and Lauren mothered her all the time, checking that she was eating well, and was warm enough, and sleeping easily.
  Mom, if you don't stop mothering him, he's going to come around every day.
  Women have a strong maternal instinct and have a hard time grasping that most men loathe being mothered - can she back off when you tell her to?
  What's more, the judge seems surely, perhaps instinctively, to be protecting him - mothering him.
  She dominated the compartment and decided to wield her power over me as well, mocking my stuttering Hindi and mothering me by forcing me to eat.
  Her gay friends allow her to mother them without the drag of true responsibility.
  He loved to be mothered by women and women loved to mother him.
  He's totally assured in the arena, but in moments of repose you want to mother him.
  Odile is both drawn to and repelled by the boy; she wants him to leave but needs him to stay; she mothers him and flirts with him by turns.
  It's a good thing I trust those instincts of yours or I'd think you were mothering me.
  She scolded him and generally mothered him as he insisted that he was completely fine, all the while biting back groans of pain.
  He was the youngest of four brothers and sister so he did get spoiled and I mothered him.
  Synonyms
  look after, care for, take care of, nurture, nurse, protect, cherish, tend, raise, rear
2dated Give birth to.
she's mothered two foals that have gone on to be impressive dressage competitors
Example sentencesExamples
- Emma O'Leary mothered four sons before her husband ran off with another woman, leaving her to raise the boys on her own.
Synonyms
give birth to, have, deliver, bear, produce, bring forth

Phrases

the mother of all ——

informal An extreme example or very large specimen of a specified thing.
I got stuck in the mother of all traffic jams
Example sentencesExamples
- The mother of all Bulgarian potholes was a result of a five-year plan ending in 1987.
- The mother of all howlers was the prediction of future scarcity of resources in the 1970s.
- Fast forward to Saturday morning and I was having a lie down out in the sun with the mother of all hangovers.
- I then had a little something to eat and watched a little telly, although I still had the mother of all headaches.
- But we suspect the anti-Europeans will very shortly wake up with the mother of all hangovers.
- Perhaps, the cricket coaches and psychologists should speak to them about how to motivate the team to win the mother of all cricketing contests.
- I do not want to live through the Third World War which has the potential to be the Mother of all Wars.
- It looks like it's going to be the mother of all bottlenecks, and a super overpass will be needed.
- This bus station is being seen as the mother of all solutions to the grievances of bus commuters in Bangalore.
- I'm feeling very sorry for myself today as I have the mother of all colds.
- I look around to see, watching me, two glass bead eyes stitched onto the mother of all big handbags.
- Next, the restaurant lays out the mother of all meals, a Royal Thai degustation feast.
- Irvine persuaded the city fathers to throw the mother of all parties.
- It sounds like the mother of all hangovers to me, but I may be being unfair - she suffers with a twisted spine.
- They are the mother of all prawns and fetch handsome prices for those who net them from the wild.
- I was in the bathroom looking at myself in the mirror, psyching myself up for the mother of all Friday night parties.
- It's the mother of all tribal sectarian conflicts and it's hard to articulate it without taking sides.

Origin

Old English mōdor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch moeder and German Mutter, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin mater and Greek mētēr.

单词	mother
释义	Definition of mother in English: mother noun ˈmʌðəˈməðər 1A woman in relation to her child or children. she returned to Bristol to nurse her ageing mother a mother of three Example sentencesExamples In eight of these cities, more than 60% of births were to unwed mothers. His father and mother were very affectionate and I was fond of his family. We're going to be late to meet my parents and my mother hates to be kept waiting. It was my mother, my loving, caring mother who missed me more than words could say. His parents divorced and he had to take care of his mother and brother. To prove this she interviewed mothers who had given birth prematurely and discovered that a high proportion of them had suffered stress events in pregnancy. It is a fitting tribute from a daughter to her mother on her 75th birthday. A mother who gave birth outside a locked maternity unit has criticised health bosses for not keeping it open around the clock. He lives at home with his parents helping his mother care for his father, who has a debilitating illness. When Mother sold a story they had three-pennyworth of halfpenny buns for tea. My mother has my birth certificate, but she does not want anything to do with me any more. However, after my mother and father divorced, my mother, my two brothers and I moved to Scotsburn. Mr Marchant and his wife wanted to return to the UK to be near to their mothers, both of whom are elderly, and live in the south. My mother is caring and sweet to my siblings, but I haven't felt loved by her for years. He said his impression was that she was a good mother and took good care of her children. The average age of mothers who gave birth in 2000 was 30. Morana smiled slightly, at the thought of her mother and father watching out for her. Just ten months ago his mother, with whom he had lived all of his life, passed away. Six and a half years ago, my mother collapsed and was taken into hospital. Mr McGeehan said a minority of expectant mothers wanted to give birth at home. In 1962, there were more than 2,000 births to mothers who had 10 or more previous children. Now the youngest victim's mother has advised other parents to warn their children to take extra care. All those mothers now giving birth at the age of 45 or more should hope that their daughters don't follow their example. You know, the funny thing about sexism is that most young men, you included, have mothers and sisters whom they love and respect. Synonyms female parent, materfamilias, matriarch biological mother, birth mother, foster mother, adoptive mother, stepmother, surrogate mother informal ma, mam, mammy, old dear, old lady, old woman British informal mum, mummy, mumsy North American informal mom, mommy British informal, dated mater dated mama, mamma Indian Mata Indian informal amma rare progenitress, progenitrix 1.1 A female animal in relation to its offspring. as modifier a mother penguin Example sentencesExamples Orangutan offspring stay with their mothers until they're seven or eight years old, but orangutans are on the lower end of the sociability scale among great apes. Offspring and their mothers are inseparable during the first few years of the youngster's life. Females stay with their mothers, forming a group of related animals that co-operate to bring up and feed the latest litters of cubs. They are taught by their mothers or other bustards how to recognize and avoid foxes and other dangers. Mammals are the only major group of vertebrates in which mothers are more involved. The high female infection rate also spells trouble for the next generation of bears since infected mothers transmit the mites to their offspring. Till recently, they were feeding on the regurgitated food provided by the mother. Heifers are females before they become mothers; after that, they're called cows. The researchers positively identified the mothers of 371 individual bats and the fathers of 232. Shallow water may allow mothers and calves to detect and avoid predatory sharks. One of the non-orphan lambs is having a bottle now and then as its mother isn't caring for it. The mother flew off as usual but seemed no more agitated than she had been when guarding the eggs. Cubs live with their mothers for about a year and a half, when females often conceive again. Pups learn from their mothers how to forage and what prey items to look for as well as swimming and grooming behaviors. Competition for the few males is now so fierce that dominant females actively push young, would-be mothers out of the picture. I am frequently asked whether handling a baby bird will keep the mother from feeding it. Cub aggression, however, is not necessarily higher among offspring of high-ranking mothers, the study says. In Gombe Stream National Park, a chimpanzee sanctuary in western Tanzania, one of the primate mothers, Gremlin, was trying to wean her twins. Female baboons tend to form the tightest bonds with their mothers, aunts, and sisters. In contrast, zoo elephants are typically found in groups of two, and two-thirds of female calves are taken from their mothers at an early age. Synonyms dam 1.2archaic (especially as a form of address) an elderly woman. Example sentencesExamples ‘Mother,’ said the conductor, ‘do you want to go to Denver?’ 1.3as modifier Denoting an institution or organization from which others of the same type derive. the initiatives were based on the experience of the mother company Example sentencesExamples He argues that there is only one mother church, which is the Catholic church, so it is terminologically incorrect to call say the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches sister churches as it places them on a level of equality. In general, it is given the task of filling market niches in which the mother company does not compete. 1.4 (especially as a title or form of address) the head of a female religious community. Example sentencesExamples Sr. Elizabeth Ann Eckert is the new reverend mother of the Anglican Sisterhood of St. John the Divine, succeeding Sr. Constance Joanna Gefvert. Mother Aquinas faced the decision with great courage and tact. 1.5informal An extreme example or very large specimen of something. I got stuck in the mother of all traffic jams Example sentencesExamples The mother of all howlers was the prediction of future scarcity of resources in the 1970s. It sounds like the mother of all hangovers to me, but I may be being unfair - she suffers with a twisted spine. It looks like it's going to be the mother of all bottlenecks, and a super overpass will be needed. Irvine persuaded the city fathers to throw the mother of all parties. I'm feeling very sorry for myself today as I have the mother of all colds. Next, the restaurant lays out the mother of all meals, a Royal Thai degustation feast. Perhaps, the cricket coaches and psychologists should speak to them about how to motivate the team to win the mother of all cricketing contests. I was in the bathroom looking at myself in the mirror, psyching myself up for the mother of all Friday night parties. I look around to see, watching me, two glass bead eyes stitched onto the mother of all big handbags. I do not want to live through the Third World War which has the potential to be the Mother of all Wars. The mother of all Bulgarian potholes was a result of a five-year plan ending in 1987. But we suspect the anti-Europeans will very shortly wake up with the mother of all hangovers. They are the mother of all prawns and fetch handsome prices for those who net them from the wild. I then had a little something to eat and watched a little telly, although I still had the mother of all headaches. It's the mother of all tribal sectarian conflicts and it's hard to articulate it without taking sides. Fast forward to Saturday morning and I was having a lie down out in the sun with the mother of all hangovers. This bus station is being seen as the mother of all solutions to the grievances of bus commuters in Bangalore. 2North American vulgar slang short for motherfucker verb ˈmʌðəˈməðər [with object] 1often as noun motheringBring up (a child) with care and affection. the art of mothering Example sentencesExamples She closely guards the privacy of her daughters, now five and three, only saying that she enjoys mothering and tries hard to spend time with them every day, although her schedule is always tight. Parenting, mothering in particular, requires a subtle intuitiveness for which there can never be adequate preparation in any job. It's as if Victoria wants to remembered for something else except for mothering David's kids, and being trampled on at the same time. Topics include mothering, fathering, marriages, family group processes, sibling relations, and families. I find it distressing to see in a lot of the news coverage of this issue, how it has forced women to belittle other women's mothering. I don't really have much of a social life - no time after a full day at work and then mothering for the rest of the time. One child, abandoned years earlier at hospital by his mother, has attached himself to Nancy, who mothers the orphan, discipline and all. In this line of thinking, what children in childcare require is substitute mothering. Mothers feel passionately about their children and about mothering, which they see as unique and extraordinarily important work. So I feel I can be a good role model as a mother because I love being a mom and I have great advice for everybody when it comes to mothering. The jobs available to low-skilled women, with few benefits, irregular hours, and little time off, are the least compatible with mothering. It is an acknowledgement of all the black women who have mothered other people's children. Yet today, at age 29, she spends her days at her home near Salt Lake City, Utah, mothering her three children, all under age 5. And I don't think you can do everything as well as it needs to be done when it comes to mothering when you have a schedule like mine. With a husband fighting in the war, likely to die at any moment, and a farm of wounded, vulgar soldiers, mothering a child would not be an easy task. In an exchange that emphasizes the way these two women interpret that love, Williams shows us how power relations affect mothering. Ben acted this way, I now remember, when I took a vacation from mothering. People in Angola get old before their time, be they press-ganged boy soldiers or little girls thrust abruptly into mothering baby sisters or daughters. In 1987 he married Fran who, as well as mothering his two children, Billy and Katie, is the co-writer and co-producer of all his films. But asked about the emphasis on mothering, activists say it hasn't played a significant role in contemporary feminist antiwar organizing. Synonyms bring up, care for, provide for, take care of, attend to, look after, rear, support, raise, foster, parent, tend 1.1 Look after (someone) kindly and protectively, sometimes excessively so. she mothered her husband, insisting he should take cod liver oil in the winter Example sentencesExamples Margaret mothers him by sending others off to do his work and fetch him water. Mom, if you don't stop mothering him, he's going to come around every day. He's totally assured in the arena, but in moments of repose you want to mother him. Fluent in five languages, highly informed and a stickler for precise dates and details, she is equally at ease mothering me with biscuits, stuffing plant cuttings into my hands or scolding me for my dismal grasp of the Czech language. She was, of course, my sister, and I loved her, but I had never mothered her the way I had doted on Henry or - most of all - Maggie. She was still mad about that night but more than that, she didn't feel like being mothered by her sister. While she was never married and had no children of her own, she mothered a great many. She scolded him and generally mothered him as he insisted that he was completely fine, all the while biting back groans of pain. Odile is both drawn to and repelled by the boy; she wants him to leave but needs him to stay; she mothers him and flirts with him by turns. The checkouts were populated by a mixture of young girls and housewives, and for the most part they mothered me rotten. Anya nodded, but felt an annoyance at being mothered. She dominated the compartment and decided to wield her power over me as well, mocking my stuttering Hindi and mothering me by forcing me to eat. Working with Jane, who plays my mom, was great, though she did tend to mother me a lot. Women have a strong maternal instinct and have a hard time grasping that most men loathe being mothered - can she back off when you tell her to? The two girls worried constantly about each other, and Lauren mothered her all the time, checking that she was eating well, and was warm enough, and sleeping easily. He loved to be mothered by women and women loved to mother him. It's a good thing I trust those instincts of yours or I'd think you were mothering me. Her gay friends allow her to mother them without the drag of true responsibility. He was the youngest of four brothers and sister so he did get spoiled and I mothered him. What's more, the judge seems surely, perhaps instinctively, to be protecting him - mothering him. Synonyms look after, care for, take care of, nurture, nurse, protect, cherish, tend, raise, rear pamper, coddle, cosset, baby, overprotect, overparent, fuss over, indulge, spoil 2dated Give birth to. she's mothered two foals that have gone on to be impressive dressage competitors Example sentencesExamples Emma O'Leary mothered four sons before her husband ran off with another woman, leaving her to raise the boys on her own. Synonyms give birth to, have, deliver, bear, produce, bring forth North American birth informal drop archaic be brought to bed of Origin Old English mōdor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch moeder and German Mutter, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin mater and Greek mētēr. English mother, Dutch moeder, and German Mutter share their ancient ancestor with Latin mater (source of madrigal (late 16th century), maternal (Late Middle English), matriarch (late 16th century), matrimony (Late Middle English), matrix (Late Middle English), and matter (Middle English) the last two containing the idea of something from which something is made or born). The root probably came from the use of the sound ma made by babies, identified by mothers as a reference to themselves. The British expression some mothers do 'ave 'em, commenting on a person's clumsy or foolish behaviour, was apparently originally a Lancashire saying. The comic Jimmy Clitheroe popularized it, as ‘don't some mothers 'ave 'em, in his BBC radio programme The Clitheroe Kid, which ran from 1958 to 1972. The phrase gained further currency as the title of a 1970s BBC television comedy series Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, in which Michael Crawford starred as the clumsy, accident-prone Frank Spencer. The former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is remembered as having promised the mother of all battles on the eve of the first Gulf War. On 7 January 1991 The Times reported that he had no intention of relinquishing Kuwait and was ready for the ‘mother of all wars’. The proverb necessity is the mother of invention is first recorded in 1658, in Northern Memoirs by R. Franck: ‘Art imitates Nature, and Necessity is the Mother of Invention.’ The idea can be traced back further to classical times, to the Roman satirist Persius, who stated that ‘The belly is the teacher of art and giver of wit’. Rhymes another, brother, other, smother, t'other Definition of mother in US English: mother nounˈməðərˈməT͟Hər 1A woman in relation to her child or children. she returned to Bristol to nurse her aging mother a mother of three Example sentencesExamples Mr Marchant and his wife wanted to return to the UK to be near to their mothers, both of whom are elderly, and live in the south. His father and mother were very affectionate and I was fond of his family. He lives at home with his parents helping his mother care for his father, who has a debilitating illness. He said his impression was that she was a good mother and took good care of her children. When Mother sold a story they had three-pennyworth of halfpenny buns for tea. His parents divorced and he had to take care of his mother and brother. However, after my mother and father divorced, my mother, my two brothers and I moved to Scotsburn. Now the youngest victim's mother has advised other parents to warn their children to take extra care. To prove this she interviewed mothers who had given birth prematurely and discovered that a high proportion of them had suffered stress events in pregnancy. All those mothers now giving birth at the age of 45 or more should hope that their daughters don't follow their example. In 1962, there were more than 2,000 births to mothers who had 10 or more previous children. Mr McGeehan said a minority of expectant mothers wanted to give birth at home. The average age of mothers who gave birth in 2000 was 30. It was my mother, my loving, caring mother who missed me more than words could say. Just ten months ago his mother, with whom he had lived all of his life, passed away. Morana smiled slightly, at the thought of her mother and father watching out for her. My mother has my birth certificate, but she does not want anything to do with me any more. You know, the funny thing about sexism is that most young men, you included, have mothers and sisters whom they love and respect. A mother who gave birth outside a locked maternity unit has criticised health bosses for not keeping it open around the clock. In eight of these cities, more than 60% of births were to unwed mothers. Six and a half years ago, my mother collapsed and was taken into hospital. We're going to be late to meet my parents and my mother hates to be kept waiting. My mother is caring and sweet to my siblings, but I haven't felt loved by her for years. It is a fitting tribute from a daughter to her mother on her 75th birthday. Synonyms female parent, materfamilias, matriarch 1.1 A female animal in relation to its offspring. as modifier a mother penguin Example sentencesExamples In Gombe Stream National Park, a chimpanzee sanctuary in western Tanzania, one of the primate mothers, Gremlin, was trying to wean her twins. I am frequently asked whether handling a baby bird will keep the mother from feeding it. The mother flew off as usual but seemed no more agitated than she had been when guarding the eggs. Cub aggression, however, is not necessarily higher among offspring of high-ranking mothers, the study says. One of the non-orphan lambs is having a bottle now and then as its mother isn't caring for it. The high female infection rate also spells trouble for the next generation of bears since infected mothers transmit the mites to their offspring. Mammals are the only major group of vertebrates in which mothers are more involved. Female baboons tend to form the tightest bonds with their mothers, aunts, and sisters. Offspring and their mothers are inseparable during the first few years of the youngster's life. They are taught by their mothers or other bustards how to recognize and avoid foxes and other dangers. Cubs live with their mothers for about a year and a half, when females often conceive again. Till recently, they were feeding on the regurgitated food provided by the mother. Orangutan offspring stay with their mothers until they're seven or eight years old, but orangutans are on the lower end of the sociability scale among great apes. Shallow water may allow mothers and calves to detect and avoid predatory sharks. Heifers are females before they become mothers; after that, they're called cows. Pups learn from their mothers how to forage and what prey items to look for as well as swimming and grooming behaviors. In contrast, zoo elephants are typically found in groups of two, and two-thirds of female calves are taken from their mothers at an early age. Females stay with their mothers, forming a group of related animals that co-operate to bring up and feed the latest litters of cubs. The researchers positively identified the mothers of 371 individual bats and the fathers of 232. Competition for the few males is now so fierce that dominant females actively push young, would-be mothers out of the picture. Synonyms dam 1.2archaic (especially as a form of address) an elderly woman. Example sentencesExamples ‘Mother,’ said the conductor, ‘do you want to go to Denver?’ 1.3as modifier Denoting an institution or organization from which more recently founded institutions of the same type derive. the mother church Example sentencesExamples In general, it is given the task of filling market niches in which the mother company does not compete. He argues that there is only one mother church, which is the Catholic church, so it is terminologically incorrect to call say the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches sister churches as it places them on a level of equality. 1.4 (especially as a title or form of address) the head of a female religious community. Example sentencesExamples Mother Aquinas faced the decision with great courage and tact. Sr. Elizabeth Ann Eckert is the new reverend mother of the Anglican Sisterhood of St. John the Divine, succeeding Sr. Constance Joanna Gefvert. 2North American vulgar slang short for motherfucker verbˈməðərˈməT͟Hər [with object] 1often as noun motheringBring up (a child) with care and affection. the art of mothering Example sentencesExamples Topics include mothering, fathering, marriages, family group processes, sibling relations, and families. I don't really have much of a social life - no time after a full day at work and then mothering for the rest of the time. The jobs available to low-skilled women, with few benefits, irregular hours, and little time off, are the least compatible with mothering. Yet today, at age 29, she spends her days at her home near Salt Lake City, Utah, mothering her three children, all under age 5. It's as if Victoria wants to remembered for something else except for mothering David's kids, and being trampled on at the same time. In 1987 he married Fran who, as well as mothering his two children, Billy and Katie, is the co-writer and co-producer of all his films. She closely guards the privacy of her daughters, now five and three, only saying that she enjoys mothering and tries hard to spend time with them every day, although her schedule is always tight. So I feel I can be a good role model as a mother because I love being a mom and I have great advice for everybody when it comes to mothering. Ben acted this way, I now remember, when I took a vacation from mothering. Parenting, mothering in particular, requires a subtle intuitiveness for which there can never be adequate preparation in any job. And I don't think you can do everything as well as it needs to be done when it comes to mothering when you have a schedule like mine. I find it distressing to see in a lot of the news coverage of this issue, how it has forced women to belittle other women's mothering. People in Angola get old before their time, be they press-ganged boy soldiers or little girls thrust abruptly into mothering baby sisters or daughters. It is an acknowledgement of all the black women who have mothered other people's children. In this line of thinking, what children in childcare require is substitute mothering. In an exchange that emphasizes the way these two women interpret that love, Williams shows us how power relations affect mothering. One child, abandoned years earlier at hospital by his mother, has attached himself to Nancy, who mothers the orphan, discipline and all. But asked about the emphasis on mothering, activists say it hasn't played a significant role in contemporary feminist antiwar organizing. With a husband fighting in the war, likely to die at any moment, and a farm of wounded, vulgar soldiers, mothering a child would not be an easy task. Mothers feel passionately about their children and about mothering, which they see as unique and extraordinarily important work. Synonyms bring up, care for, provide for, take care of, attend to, look after, rear, support, raise, foster, parent, tend 1.1 Look after (someone) kindly and protectively, sometimes excessively so. she felt mothered by her older sister Example sentencesExamples She was, of course, my sister, and I loved her, but I had never mothered her the way I had doted on Henry or - most of all - Maggie. Margaret mothers him by sending others off to do his work and fetch him water. Anya nodded, but felt an annoyance at being mothered. Working with Jane, who plays my mom, was great, though she did tend to mother me a lot. The checkouts were populated by a mixture of young girls and housewives, and for the most part they mothered me rotten. Fluent in five languages, highly informed and a stickler for precise dates and details, she is equally at ease mothering me with biscuits, stuffing plant cuttings into my hands or scolding me for my dismal grasp of the Czech language. While she was never married and had no children of her own, she mothered a great many. She was still mad about that night but more than that, she didn't feel like being mothered by her sister. The two girls worried constantly about each other, and Lauren mothered her all the time, checking that she was eating well, and was warm enough, and sleeping easily. Mom, if you don't stop mothering him, he's going to come around every day. Women have a strong maternal instinct and have a hard time grasping that most men loathe being mothered - can she back off when you tell her to? What's more, the judge seems surely, perhaps instinctively, to be protecting him - mothering him. She dominated the compartment and decided to wield her power over me as well, mocking my stuttering Hindi and mothering me by forcing me to eat. Her gay friends allow her to mother them without the drag of true responsibility. He loved to be mothered by women and women loved to mother him. He's totally assured in the arena, but in moments of repose you want to mother him. Odile is both drawn to and repelled by the boy; she wants him to leave but needs him to stay; she mothers him and flirts with him by turns. It's a good thing I trust those instincts of yours or I'd think you were mothering me. She scolded him and generally mothered him as he insisted that he was completely fine, all the while biting back groans of pain. He was the youngest of four brothers and sister so he did get spoiled and I mothered him. Synonyms look after, care for, take care of, nurture, nurse, protect, cherish, tend, raise, rear 2dated Give birth to. she's mothered two foals that have gone on to be impressive dressage competitors Example sentencesExamples Emma O'Leary mothered four sons before her husband ran off with another woman, leaving her to raise the boys on her own. Synonyms give birth to, have, deliver, bear, produce, bring forth Phrases the mother of all —— informal An extreme example or very large specimen of a specified thing. I got stuck in the mother of all traffic jams Example sentencesExamples The mother of all Bulgarian potholes was a result of a five-year plan ending in 1987. The mother of all howlers was the prediction of future scarcity of resources in the 1970s. Fast forward to Saturday morning and I was having a lie down out in the sun with the mother of all hangovers. I then had a little something to eat and watched a little telly, although I still had the mother of all headaches. But we suspect the anti-Europeans will very shortly wake up with the mother of all hangovers. Perhaps, the cricket coaches and psychologists should speak to them about how to motivate the team to win the mother of all cricketing contests. I do not want to live through the Third World War which has the potential to be the Mother of all Wars. It looks like it's going to be the mother of all bottlenecks, and a super overpass will be needed. This bus station is being seen as the mother of all solutions to the grievances of bus commuters in Bangalore. I'm feeling very sorry for myself today as I have the mother of all colds. I look around to see, watching me, two glass bead eyes stitched onto the mother of all big handbags. Next, the restaurant lays out the mother of all meals, a Royal Thai degustation feast. Irvine persuaded the city fathers to throw the mother of all parties. It sounds like the mother of all hangovers to me, but I may be being unfair - she suffers with a twisted spine. They are the mother of all prawns and fetch handsome prices for those who net them from the wild. I was in the bathroom looking at myself in the mirror, psyching myself up for the mother of all Friday night parties. It's the mother of all tribal sectarian conflicts and it's hard to articulate it without taking sides. Origin Old English mōdor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch moeder and German Mutter, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin mater and Greek mētēr. noun.1 phr.
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