A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
I am visiting my mother today.
A female who has given birth to a baby; this person in relation to her child or children.
My sister-in-law has just become a mother for the first time.
Motherfucker.
(Burn, baby, burn) Disco inferno / (Burn, baby, burn) Burn the mother down
A striking example. (Appears as "mother of a(n) __".
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.
Alternative form of moth-er.
A title given to a nun or a priestess.
Mother Teresa Gertrude O’Sullivan, then Provincial, did not give higher education for Loreto nuns the same priority as had Mothers Gonzaga and Stanislaus.
To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (.
Q's sister, Debbie, had mothered two kids by the time she was twenty, with neither of the fathers in sight.
To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr Proto-Germanic *mōdēr Proto-West Germanic *mōder Old English mōdor Middle English moder English mother From Middle English moder, from Old English mōdor, fr...
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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.
To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”).
mothered oil, mothered vinegar, mothered wine
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.
...different stages of life as represented by our Lady as Maiden, Mother, and Crone, as well as our Lord as Master, Father, and Sage.