Usually means: Caring for and nurturing children.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word mothering:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. mothering: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mothering: Merriam-Webster
  3. mothering: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mothering: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mothering: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mothering: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mothering, mothering: Wordnik
  8. mothering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mothering: Wiktionary
  10. mothering: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mothering: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Mothering, mothering: Dictionary.com
  13. mothering: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Mothering (magazine): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Mothering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. mothering: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Mothering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. mothering: FreeDictionary.org
  19. mothering: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mothering: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mothering: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mothering: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mothering: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mothering: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. mothering: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See mother as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (mothering)

noun:  The nurturing of a child by its mother.
noun:  The protective behavior of a mother towards her child.
noun:  Nurturing or protective behavior reminiscent of that performed by a literal mother.
noun:  (obsolete) Shortened form of a-mothering (obsolete); practice of visiting one's literal or figurative mother or mother church (compare Mothering Sunday).

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