Mother

Definition: Mother

Mother

Noun

1. A woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother); "the mother of three children".

2. A stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar.

3. A term of address for an elderly woman.

4. A condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation; "necessity is the mother of invention".

Verb

1. Care for like a mother; "She fusses over her husband".

2. Make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "mother" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Computing

Dream Interpretation

Electrical Engineering

Literature

Mining

Occupations

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Mother

Amusement

Leapfrog, hop skip and jump; mother may I; French and English, tug of war; blindman's bluff, hunt the slopper, hide and seek, kiss in the ring; snapdragon; cross questions and crooked answers.; crisscross, hopscotch; jacks, jackstones, marbles; mumblety-peg, mumble-the-peg, pushball, shinney, shinny, tag;

Bad Man

Rough, rowdy, hooligan, tough, ugly customer, mean mother, ruffian, bully, meanie; Jonathan Wild; hangman.

Intelligence Wisdom

Noun: intelligence, capacity, comprehension, understanding; cuteness, sabe , savvy ; intellect; nous, parts, sagacity, mother wit, wit, esprit, gumption, quick parts, grasp of intellect; acuteness; Adjective: acumen, subtlety, penetration, perspicacy, perspicacity; discernment, due sense of, good judgment; discrimination; cunning; refinement; (taste).

Jewelry

Pearl, cultured pearl, fresh-water pearl; mother of pearl; coral.

Language

Noun: language; phraseology; speech; tongue, lingo, vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue; household words; King's English, Queen's English; dialect.

Paternity

Motherhood, maternity; mother, dam, mamma, materfamilias, grandmother.

Size

Of cosmic proportions; of epic proportions, the mother of all, teh granddaddy of all.

Skill

Knowledge of the world, world wisdom, savoir faire; tact; mother wit; (sagacity); discretion; (caution); finesse; craftiness; (cunning); management; (conduct); self-help.

Uncleanness

Sordes, dregs, grounds, lees; argol; sediment, settlement heeltap; dross, drossiness; mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders. recrement, slag; scum, froth.

Warning

Handwriting on the wall, mene mene tekel upharsin, red flag, yellow flag; fog-signal, foghorn; siren; monitor, warning voice, Cassandra, signs of the times, Mother Cary's chickens, stormy petrel, bird of ill omen, gathering clouds, clouds in the horizon, death watch.

Crosswords: Mother

German (mutter).

She's her mother. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.)

That's the way to kiss you're mother! (American Pie 2; writing credit: Adam Herz; David H. Steinberg)

Hell, I am Mother Nature, and the time has come for plants to take back the world so rightfully ours (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

And I think he and your mother have not had sex in a long time (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

But it wasn't always so. I had a mother once, and Louis: he had a wife (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

Oh Mother, tell me more (Matilda Mother; performing artist: Pink Floyd)

Bet you'd sell your mother (Wall Street Shuffle; performing artist: 10CC)

Ya always wuz commited, a poor single mother on welfare, (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac)

Did you call up your mother to tell her you loved her; (Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning); performing artist: Alan Jackson)

I'm sure she'd make a really excellent mother (You Oughta Know; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Rebellion is the mother of wrong actions. (references; author: unknown)

It is never easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it. (references; author: unknown)

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gives her before Father Time takes it away. (references; author: unknown)

One of the most important things a father can do for his children is to love their mother. (references; author: unknown)

Under the mother otter, muttered the other otter. (references; author: unknown)

And Mother Makes Five (1974)

Mother Dogfather (1974)

Mean Mother (1973)

Little Mother (1973)

Jenny and Her Sexy Mother (1972)

Mother Of Mine (performing artist: Neil Reid)

Mother and Child Reunion (performing artist: Paul Simon)

Matilda Mother (performing artist: Pink Floyd)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• What No One Tells the Bride: Surviving the Wedding, Sex After the Honeymoon, Second Thoughts, Wedding Cake Freezer Burn, Becoming Your Mother, Screaming About Money, Screaming (reference)

• Mother Teresa: Friend of the Friendless (Picture-Story Biographies) (reference)

• MOTHER AND CHILD WERE SAVED. The memoirs (1693-1740) of the Frisian midwife Catharina Schrader. With introductory essays by M.J. van Lieburg and G.J. Kloosterman. (reference)

• The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less (reference)

• Mother Teresa of Calcutta: A Fruitful Branch on the Vine, Jesus (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Mother And Child (reference)

• Working Mother (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• All About My Mother (reference)

• Mother and Son (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Bad Mother Trucker (reference)

• His Mother Called Him Bill [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [EXTRA TRACKS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Golden Books - Mother Goose (reference)

• Old Mother Hubbard [DOWNLOAD] (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Mother Photo Album: Memory Box (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A 9 year-old white child is pictured here in a home setting chatting with her mother. The girl is a long-term survivor of massive abdominal surgery at age 3 for neuroblastoma. She is presently disease-free. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Pictured is a family group of a father, mother and eight children around a piano. One of the younger women is playing the piano and the others are following the music and singing. They raise their hands while singing. It appears to be a family room home setting. These people are a Mormon family. They are presently being studied for their low cancer death rate. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Mother with children waiting to be immunized in a well baby clinic in Dekalb County, GA. Credit: CDC.

Maternal or placental malaria predisposes the newborn infant to a low birthweight, premature delivery, increased infant mortality, and the mother to maternal anemia. Credit: CDC.

Cubs stay with sedated polar bear - Ursus maritimus - mother during Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program studies. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

Marine mammal observers watching mother killer whale and calf - Orcinus orca. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

A mother seal voicing its displeasure at human intrusion. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Look what I got! A baby polar bear Mother was sedated- mother and cub tagged for study Photo #2 of sequence Operations off of SURVEYOR. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A mother Weddell seal and her pup. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A menhaden mother vessel. Credit: Fisheries.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But in this power the mother too has her share with the father. (Second Treatise of Government)

Has not Christianity declaimed against private property, against marriage, against the State? Has it not preached in the place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church? Christian Socialism is but the holy, water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat. (reference)

The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

For the stage subsequent to approximately the end of the first trimester, the State, in promoting its interest in the health of the mother, may, if it chooses, regulate the abortion procedure in ways that are reasonably related to maternal health. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Absolute neglect of the mother and sisters, when invited to come, would be ingratitude

The fond mother.

The mother and her daughters were engaged in sewing

"It's at times like this, when I'm stuck in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelegeuse about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was little." "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen!"

He sent even me, thy mother.

It will be remembered that Cosette was useful to the Thenardiers in two ways, they got pay from the mother and work from the child

His mother put on the oilsheet

And be a happy mother by the deed

Pa stepped inside, clearing the door, and Tom looked in at his mother.

But the next morning Glumdalclitch, my little nurse, told me the whole matter, which she had cunningly picked out from her mother.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

That’s something that happens to your mother. (references)

She says her mother never talked about it either. (references)

Placenta — A special tissue that joins the mother and fetus. (references)

Business

At the same time, however, industry consolidation is occurring since Kim's Club and Nasan Clef are now experiencing liquidation problems because of excessive debt and the bankruptcy of their mother companies. (references)

Some of the significant projects within petrochemicals include mother crackers at Hazira, Gandhar, Gandhinagar (Gujarat); Auraiya (Uttar Pradesh); Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh); Haldia (West Bengal); Tengaghat (Assam); Paya Near Ludhiana (Punjab); and Mangalore (Karnataka). (references)

Children

Israel and the occupied territories

There is a broad network of mother and child clinics, which provide prenatal care as well as postnatal follow-up. (references)

Switzerland

In May a 16-month-old girl died from starvation in Geneva after her mother was jailed and left her in their apartment. (references)

Cape Verde

The decision, which was intended to protect mother and child and to discourage early pregnancy, was very controversial. (references)

Civil Liberties

Iran

The woman claimed that her mother was a Baha'i and she herself had been raised a Baha'i. (references)

Iceland

Children at birth are presumed to have the same religious affiliation as their mother and are registered as such. (references)

Vietnam

A priest, Pham Minh Tri, and a lay brother, Nguyen Thien Phung, belonging to the Congregation of the Mother Co-Redemptrix remain imprisoned reportedly for assisting in running an underground seminary. (references)

Economic History

Uzbekistan

Some western companies that have opened franchise stores in Tashkent are Levi's, Benneton, and Mother Care. (references)

The Netherlands

Her mother, Queen Emma, reigned as regent until 1898, when Wilhelmina reached the age of 18 and became the monarch. (references)

Solomon Islands

Land generally is still held on a family or village basis and may be handed down from mother or father according to local custom. (references)

Human Rights

Georgia

Romanov's mother attempted to intervene and subsequently was beaten. (references)

Honduras

The Government agreed to pay $19,240 (298,320 lempiras) to Jaco's mother. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

On February 1, four gendarmes searched the house of Bechio's mother and seized an old hunting gun. (references)

Minorities

Croatia

The mother later was transported to the county hospital, where the newborn was pronounced dead. (references)

Ethiopia

This drew protests from groups that reside in Oromiya whose mother tongue is not Oromiffa and who believe that their children are now at a disadvantage. (references)

Uzbekistan

Observers believe that the statistics may underestimate the actual number of ethnic Tajiks; the figures treat ethnic Tajiks whose mother tongue was Uzbek as ethnic Uzbeks. (references)

Political Economy

Swaziland

The September municipal elections and 1998 parliamentary and municipal elections increased representative government; however, political power continues to rest largely with the King and his circle of traditional advisors, including the Queen Mother. (references)

Political Rights

Suriname

In the past, most women were expected to fulfill the roles of housewife and mother, thereby limiting opportunities to gain political experience or position. (references)

Travel

Korea

In the majority of Korean households, the father is the primary wage earner, while the mother stays at home. (references)

Women

Tunisia

Either the mother or father may convey citizenship to a child. (references)

Swaziland

Children born out of wedlock are viewed as belonging to the mother. (references)

Turkey

In May in Adana, a 14-year old boy was arrested for stabbing his mother to death. (references)

Worker Rights

Brazil

Officials learned of the ring through a charge filed by the mother of a young woman who returned from Spain. (references)

Switzerland

The court found that the trafficker was not member of any specific criminal organization despite his having worked closely with his mother and sister, who lived in Nigeria. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Mother

Mother

A mother

Expressions using "mother": adoptive mother ♦ birth mother ♦ den mother ♦ earth mother ♦ expectant mother ♦ fond mother ♦ Foster mother ♦ great Mother ♦ he was all the world to his mother ♦ intended mother ♦ late mother ♦ like mother like daughter ♦ mother and child ♦ mother and father ♦ mother bee ♦ mother board ♦ mother Carey's chicken ♦ mother Carey's goose ♦ mother Carey's hen ♦ mother Cary's chickens ♦ mother cell ♦ mother church ♦ mother company ♦ mother country ♦ mother craft ♦ mother day ♦ mother earth ♦ mother figure ♦ mother fixation ♦ mother goose ♦ mother hen ♦ mother hubbard ♦ mother in law ♦ mother Jones ♦ mother liquor ♦ mother lode ♦ mother love ♦ mother lye ♦ mother naked ♦ mother nature ♦ mother of god ♦ mother of many children ♦ mother of our lord ♦ mother of pearl ♦ mother of thyme ♦ mother of vinegar ♦ mother oil ♦ mother plane ♦ mother queen ♦ mother Seton ♦ mother ship ♦ mother superior ♦ mother Teresa ♦ mother Theresa ♦ mother tongue ♦ mother tree ♦ mother vine ♦ mother water ♦ mother wit ♦ nursing mother ♦ phloem mother cell ♦ queen mother ♦ reverend mother ♦ spore mother cell ♦ step mother ♦ surrogate mother ♦ teenaged mother ♦ tender mother ♦ the mother of all ♦ the mother tongue ♦ unmarried mother ♦ virgin mother ♦ xylem mother cell ♦ your mother. Additional references.

Beginning with "mother": mother-a, mother-album, mother-and-baby, Mother-and-child, mother-and-child-on-beach, mother-and-toddler, mother-anything, mother-as-breast, mother-as-obstacle, mother-baby, mother-bird, mother-board, mother-child, Mother-Child Relations, mother-church, mother-city, mother-country, mother-daughter, mother-deaf, mother-dominated, mother-father-child, mother-figure, mother-fixated, mother-fixations, mother-flesh, mother-foal, mother-foetal, Mother-god, mother-goddess, mother-goddesses, mother-have, mother-hen, mother-hole, mother-hood, mother-humper, mother-image, mother-in, mother-infant, mother-in-law, mother-in-law plant, mother-in-laws, mother-in-law's tongue, mother-instinct, mother-in-waiting, mother-is, mother-knitted, mother-life, mother-love, mother-naked, mother-of-five, mother-of-four, mother-offspring, mother-of-nine, mother-of-pear, mother-of-pearl, mother-of-pearl cloud, mother-of-pearled, mother-of-pearl-lined, mother-of-pearls, mother-of-seven, mother-of-six, mother-of-so-many, mother-of-the-bride, mother-of-thousands, mother-of-three, Mother-of-thyme, mother-of-two, Mother-on-law, Mother-out-law, mother-proof, mother-she, mother-ship, mother-sitters, mother-subject, mother-substitute, mother-tandana, mother-to-baby, Mother-to-be, mother-to-child, mother-to-mother, mother-tongue, mother-tongues, mother-type, mother-wit, mother-worshipper, mother-worshipping.

Ending with "mother": earth-mother, mother-to-mother, step-mother.

Containing "mother": father-mother-children-aren't-we-normal.

Afrikaans

ma, moeder. (various references)

Albanian

nënë (Ma, mama, mamma), mëmë (parent). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مصدر (beginning, fount, fountain, infinitive, origin, principle, provenance, provenience, root, source, springhead), ‏ولد (baby, bear, beget, born, boy, breed, bring forth, deliver, engender, fall, father, generate, germinate, give birth, infant, interpolate, junior, kid, lad, originate, produce, see the light, sire, son, spawn), ‏والدة (mama), ‏حنان الامومة, ‏أم (mama, mammy, mum, mummy, or), ‏أحدث (breed, brew, bring, bring forth, create, crop, effect, enact, engender, generate, give rise to, hatch, induce, inspire, make, proceed, progress, provoke, send forth, supervene, wreck), ‏دلل (cherish, cocker, coddle, cosset, dandle, fondle, indulge, molly-coddle, pamper, pet, spoil, spoon feed), ‏دلع (make a pet of smb., molly-coddle, pet). (various references)

Asturian

ma. (various references)

Aymara

tayca. (various references)

Basque

ama. (various references)

Bemba

mayo. (various references)

Blackfoot

iksísst. (various references)

Bulgarian 

създавам (beget, build up, create, devise, erect, establish, float, form, make, originate, present, raise up, spawn, start, throw up, work), раждам (be confined, bear, beget, breed, bring forth, drop, fawn, give, give birth, have, labor, labour, lie in wait, procreate, produce, spawn, throw, whelp), възрастна жена, осиновявам (adopt), отнасям се майчински към, майка съм на, майка (dam, queen), мама (mama, mamma, mammy, mom, mum, mummy), баба (grandma, grandmother, grannie, granny, old woman, wise woman, woman), притежавам авторството на нещо, признавам майчинството си, инкубатор (hatcher, incubator, nursery). (various references)

Catalan

mare. (various references)

Cebuano

inahan. (various references)

Chamorro

nana. (various references)

Chinese 

孃 (troubled), 母親 , 母亲 (maternal, motherly), 母 (female), 仉 (surname of Mencius), 娘 (young lady). (various references)

Cornish

mam. (various references)

Czech

matka (dam, parent). (various references)

Danish

mor (duff, mother-animal), moder (mother-animal). (various references)

Dutch

moeder (metal positive, parent, parent atom, parent nucleus). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua