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Mother   /mˈəðər/   Listen
Mother

noun
1.
A woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother).  Synonym: female parent.  Antonyms: male parent, father.
2.
A stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar.
3.
A term of address for an elderly woman.
4.
A term of address for a mother superior.
5.
A condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation.
verb
(past & past part. mothered; pres. part. mothering)
1.
Care for like a mother.  Synonyms: fuss, overprotect.
2.
Make children.  Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, father, generate, get, sire.  "Men often father children but don't recognize them"



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"Mother" Quotes from Famous Books



... feel Thee touch my hand With pressure light and mild, To check me as my mother did When I was but a child; But I have felt Thee in my thoughts Fighting with sin for me, And when my heart loves God I know The sweetness ...
— The Story of the Hymns and Tunes • Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth
... J. F. Mother Earth, and the traditions and devices of all the generations of men whom she has nourished. All that is for you, Nupkins, ...
— The Tables Turned - or, Nupkins Awakened. A Socialist Interlude • William Morris
... says she cannot look at the sea without shuddering—it always makes her think of her father and mother, and the wreck of the Cassowary. But Uncle Tom and Miss Fraser like the beach, and always went there in preference to anywhere else when they went ...
— Tom Gerrard - 1904 • Louis Becke
... bottom of the "enchanted well," and, amid shouts of "Bravo!" and "Well done!" almost instantly returned, with the lifeless body of little Harry in his arms. But what's this that he finds tangled in the drowned child's hands? It is surely the beads of his beloved mother, which she bequeathed as her dying legacy to his youngest brother Eugene. How did it get into the well? He trembled visibly as it struck his mind that possibly Eugene might ...
— The Cross and the Shamrock • Hugh Quigley
... you would remove your harlot there, to your own abode. Here are no singing-boys, no banqueting-halls, no perfumed couches. The retreat of a solitary old man is no place for such an one as she. I beseech you, remove her to a more congenial home. She is well fitted for her trade; her mother ...
— Antonina • Wilkie Collins


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