mother

noun · verbA1

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noun

Plural noun:

mothersmithermutha

1.
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.
The lioness was a mother of four cubs.
2.
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.
He had something of his mother in him.
3.
A pregnant female; mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.
Nutrients and oxygen obtained by the mother are conveyed to the fetus.
4.
A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.
Đồng nghĩa: biological mother
5.
(figuratively)A female ancestor.
6.
(figuratively)A source or origin.
Near-synonym: matrix
The Mediterranean was mother to many cultures and languages.
Đồng nghĩa: matrix
7.
Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. (See mother of all.)
Near-synonym: Big One
1991, January 17, Saddam Hussein, Broadcast on Baghdad state radio. The great duel, the mother of all battles has begun.
Đồng nghĩa: Big One
8.
(dated)(dated, when followed by a surname) A title of respect for one's mother-in-law.
Mother Smith, meet my cousin, Doug Jones.
9.
(dated)A term of address for one's wife.
10.
(figuratively)Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
Near-synonyms: matron, matriarch
Đồng nghĩa: matron, matriarch
11.
(figuratively)Any person or entity which performs mothering.
Judges 5:7, KJV. The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
Galatians 4:26, KJV. Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
12.
Dregs, lees; a stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance (consisting of a culture of acetobacters) which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids (such as wine, or cider), and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air.
pieces of mother ; adding mother to vinegar

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

mothers

V_ing/Gerund

mothering

V_ed/pp

mothered

1.
(transitive)(chiefly transitive) To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.)
2.
(transitive)To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
3.
(transitive)To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”).
mothered oil, mothered vinegar, mothered wine
4.
(intransitive)(intransitive, of an alcohol) To develop mother.

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Đồng nghĩa

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Trái nghĩa

child daughter offspring son fatherwith regards to gender fatherwith regards to ancestry daughter, son, child, offspring

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English moder, from Old English mōdor, from *mōder, from Proto-Germanic *mōdēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Madeira mata mater matrix matter.