Usually means: Mother, especially in formal contexts.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word mater:

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

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

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. 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

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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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