MOTHER meaning: Woman who gives birth, nurtures

We found 49 dictionaries that define the word mother:

General (29 matching dictionaries)

mother: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mother: Merriam-Webster
Mother, mother: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
mother, mother: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
mother: Collins English Dictionary
mother: Vocabulary.com
Mother, mother, mother: Wordnik
Mother, mother: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Mother, mother: Wiktionary
mother: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
mother: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
mother: Infoplease Dictionary
mother: Dictionary.com
mother: Online Etymology Dictionary
mother: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Mother: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
mother: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
mother: Rhymezone
mother: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
mother: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Mother: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
mother: FreeDictionary.org
mother: Mnemonic Dictionary
mother: TheFreeDictionary.com
mother: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
Mother, Mother: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (2 matching dictionaries)

The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
Mother: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
mother: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

mother: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
Mother (neopaganism), mother: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)

mother: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
Mother: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
mother: Medical dictionary
Mother: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)

Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
mother: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)

Mother: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)

FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

mother, mother: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Mother: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
▸ noun:  A female who has given birth to a baby; this person in relation to her child or children.
▸ noun:  A pregnant female; mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.
▸ noun:  A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.
▸ noun:  (figuratively) A female ancestor.
▸ noun:  (figuratively) A source or origin.
▸ noun:  Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. (See mother of all.)
▸ noun:  (dated, when followed by a surname) A title of respect for one's mother-in-law.
▸ noun:  (dated) A term of address for one's wife.
▸ noun:  (figuratively) Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
▸ noun:  (figuratively) Any person or entity which performs mothering.
▸ noun:  Dregs, 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.
▸ noun:  (rail transport) A locomotive which provides electrical power for a slug.
▸ noun:  The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
▸ noun:  The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Hysterical passion; hysteria; the uterus.
▸ noun:  A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
▸ noun:  (Stan Twitter, originally drag slang) A person who is admired, respected, or looked up to within a particular fandom or community; see also: serve cunt
▸ verb:  (chiefly transitive) To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.)
▸ verb:  (transitive) To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”).
▸ verb:  (intransitive, of an alcohol) To develop mother.
▸ noun:  (euphemistic, mildly vulgar, slang) Motherfucker.
▸ noun:  (euphemistic, colloquial) A striking example. (Appears as "mother of a(n) __".)
▸ noun:  (dated) One's mother.
▸ noun:  (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.
▸ noun:  A title given to a nun or a priestess.
▸ noun:  A title given to the personification of a force of nature or abstract concept, such as Mother Nature, Mother Russia, or Mother Earth.
▸ noun:  Alternative form of moth-er [A person (especially an entomologist) or animal that catches moths.]

Opposite:

father, son, daughter, male, uncle

Types:

stepmother, adoptive mother, birth mother, surrogate mother, foster mother, wet nurse, nanny, more...

Phrases:

mother of, your mother, mother tongue, mother country, Mother Earth, more...

Adjectives:

own, dear, poor, good, old, young, widowed, foster, single, step, dead

Colors:

rose, lavender, pearl, coral, ivory, more...

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