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Mother

Noun

Definitions

1.NounA female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
"I am visiting my mother today.; The lioness was a mother of four cubs."
2.NounA female who has given birth to a baby; this person in relation to her child or children.
"My sister-in-law has just become a mother for the first time.; He had something of his mother in him."
3.NounA pregnant female; mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.
"Nutrients and oxygen obtained by the mother are conveyed to the fetus."
4.NounA female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.
5.NounA female ancestor.
6.NounA source or origin.
"The Mediterranean was mother to many cultures and languages."
7.NounSomething that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
8.NounA title of respect for one's mother-in-law.
"Mother Smith, meet my cousin, Doug Jones."
9.NounA term of address for one's wife.
10.NounAny elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
11.NounAny person or entity which performs mothering.
12.NounDregs, lees; a stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance (consisting of a culture of acetobacters) which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids (such as wine, or cider), and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air.
"pieces of mother ;   adding mother to vinegar"
13.NounA locomotive which provides electrical power for a slug.
14.NounThe principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
15.NounThe female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
16.NounHysterical passion; hysteria; the uterus.
17.NounA disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
18.NounA person who is admired, respected, or looked up to within a particular fandom or community; see also: serve cunt
19.VerbTo give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child.
20.VerbTo treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
21.VerbTo cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”).
"mothered oil, mothered vinegar, mothered wine"
22.VerbTo develop mother.
23.NounMotherfucker.
24.NounA striking example. (Appears as "mother of a(n) __".)
25.NounAlternative form of moth-er.
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