Usually means: Mother, especially in formal contexts.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word mater:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. mater: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mater: Merriam-Webster
  3. mater: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mater: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mater: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mater: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mater, mater: Wordnik
  8. mater: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. 'mater, mater: Wiktionary
  10. mater: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mater: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. mater: Dictionary.com
  13. mater: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. M.A.T.E.R, Mater (Cars), Mater: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Mater: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. mater: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. mater: Rhymezone
  18. Mater: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. mater: FreeDictionary.org
  20. mater: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. mater: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mater-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. mater: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MATER: Acronym Finder
  2. mater: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MATER: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mater: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Mater, mater: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See maters as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (British, slang, now chiefly archaic or humorous) Mother.
noun:  (anatomy) A meninx; the dura mater, arachnoid mater, or pia mater of the brain.
noun:  (biology) Someone or something that mates.
noun:  Alternative form of 'mater (“tomato”)

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