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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.
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



... develop into an irrepressible contest, leading to civil war; then, for a generation, to drive the separated parts into renewed antagonism, and finally to cause a second war. Between the North American colonies and the mother country there existed such moral, political, and economic divergence that nothing but prudent and patient statesmanship on both sides of the Atlantic could ...
— The Wars Between England and America • T. C. Smith
... of the naval blood on his mother's side, and he was not satisfied with the slow progress of the action, for the shots from the broadside guns of the enemy were beginning to tell upon the Bronx, though she had received no serious injury. ...
— On The Blockade - SERIES: The Blue and the Gray Afloat • Oliver Optic
... escape the miserable sights of the damp angle of the street; the presence of that portrait, full of soul and grandeur despite the workmanship of an amateur painter; the sight of the rich colors, now old and harmonious, in that calm and placid home; the preference of the mother for her eldest child; her opposition to the tastes of the younger; in short, the whole body of facts and circumstances which make the preamble of this history are perhaps the generating causes to which we owe Joseph ...
— The Celibates - Includes: Pierrette, The Vicar of Tours, and The Two Brothers • Honore de Balzac
... couple of that value; and Julius Caesar had one, which he gave to Servilia, the beautiful mother ...
— Theological Essays and Other Papers v2 • Thomas de Quincey
... two or three young mothers, without stockings and nursing babies; in the corner, on a chair, made twice as large as any of the others, reposed the mother of the family, a woman of large size. The whole house was pervaded by a sickly odour, like that of a vault, whilst the grime and filth of it baffle description. And this was the place we had to eat and sleep in. However, there was no help for it; the only thing to do was to ...
— Cetywayo and his White Neighbours - Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal • H. Rider Haggard


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