mother
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (figuratively) A female ancestor.Examples: "And Adã called his wyfe Heua⸝ becauſe ſhe was the mother of all that lyveth"figuratively
2. (figuratively) A source or origin.Examples: "Near-synonym: matrix"; "The Mediterranean was mother to many cultures and languages."; "Alas poore Countrey, / Almoſt affraid to know it ſelfe. It cannot / Be call’d our Mother, but our Graue;"figuratively
3. (dated, when followed by a surname) A title of respect for one's mother-in-law.Examples: "Mother Smith, meet my cousin, Doug Jones."dated
4. (dated) A term of address for one's wife.Examples: "A few minutes later we were all seated comfortably, Uncle Dave and mother, as he called his wife, myself and my husband, in the split-bottomed wooden chairs, on the vine-covered porch. / “Is Bethel a Methodist Church?” I asked. / Uncle Dave looked quizzically at his wife. “Do you hear that, mother?” he said."; "On some days as he got near the house he would call out to his wife: / “Almighty Moses, Martha! who left the sprinkler on the grass?” / On other days he would call to her from quite a little distance off: “Hullo, mother! Got any supper for a hungry man?”"; "(Mr. Hill enters. He crosses to Wife.) / Mr. Hill: Hello, mother. […] How are you? / Mrs. Hill: Nothing wrong, dear, I hope."dated
5. (figuratively) Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.Examples: "Near-synonyms: matron, matriarch"figuratively
6. (figuratively) Any person or entity which performs mothering.Examples: "Judges 5:7, KJV. The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel."; "Galatians 4:26, KJV. Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all."figuratively
verb (English)
1. (chiefly transitive) To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.)Examples: "Q's sister, Debbie, had mothered two kids by the time she was twenty, with neither of the fathers in sight."; "Zilpah, Leah's maid, mothered two sons for Jacob, Gad and Asher. Leah became pregnant once more and had two more sons, Issachar, and Zebulun, and a daughter, Dinah, thus Leah had seven children for Jacob."transitive
2. (transitive) To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.Examples: "She had seen fewer years than any of us, but she was of such superb Evehood and simplicity that she mothered us from the beginning."transitive
3. (transitive) To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”).Examples: "mothered oil, mothered vinegar, mothered wine"transitive
4. (intransitive, of an alcohol) To develop mother.Examples: "Iron rusted, paper cracked, cream soured and vinegar mothered."; "Your lamp was always polished, wick trimmed, waiting; yet the bridegroom somehow never came. Summer dust settled in the vineyard. Grapes were harvested; your parents crushed and pressed them, but the wine mothered."intransitive
noun (English)
1. (euphemistic, mildly vulgar, slang) Motherfucker.Examples: "(Burn, baby, burn) Disco inferno / (Burn, baby, burn) Burn the mother down"; "Stick a votive candle in it and fire that mother up, right?"; "Who run this mother"euphemisticmildlyslangvulgar
2. (euphemistic, colloquial) A striking example. (Appears as "mother of a(n) __".)Examples: "November, 1943 If ever, Cortney Anders promised himself, I get out of this mother of a thunderstorm there is a thing I will do if it is the last act of my life."; "Some hot night there's gonna be one mother of a riot down here. Just wait." He'd been saying the same thing since 1958, five years of crying wolf."; "Basically, we wind up with a program. One mother of a complex application."colloquialeuphemistic
name (English)
1. (dated) One's mother.Synonyms: Mom, Mum, Mummy, Goddessdated
2. (Wicca) One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Maiden and representing a woman older than a girlish Maiden but younger than an aged Crone.Examples: "...different stages of life as represented by our Lady as Maiden, Mother, and Crone, as well as our Lord as Master, Father, and Sage."; "The Lady is often thought of as having three aspects: Maiden, Mother, and Crone."
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