Word Meanings - MOTHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

modar, G. mutter, OHG. muotar, Icel. moedhir, Dan. & Sw. moder, OSlav. mati, Russ. mate, Ir. & Gael. mathair, L. mater, Gr. mh`thr, Skr. matrs; cf. Skr. ma to measure. *268. Cf. Material, Matrix, 1. A female parent; especially, one of the human

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modar, G. mutter, OHG. muotar, Icel. moedhir, Dan. & Sw. moder, OSlav. mati, Russ. mate, Ir. & Gael. mathair, L. mater, Gr. mh`thr, Skr. matrs; cf. Skr. ma to measure. *268. Cf. Material, Matrix, 1. A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child. 2. That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix. Alas! poor country! ... it can not Be called our mother, but our grave. Shak. I behold ... the solitary majesty of Crete, mother of a religion, it is said, that lived two thousand years. Landor. 3. An old woman or matron. 4. The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc. 5. Hysterical passion; hysteria. Shak. Mother Carey's chicken , any one of several species of small petrels, as the stormy petrel , and Leach's petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa), both of the Atlantic, and O. furcata of the North Pacific. -- Mother Carey's goose , the giant fulmar of the Pacific. See Fulmar. -- Mother's mark , a congenital mark upon the body; a nævus.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MOTHER)

• matron
• Mother
• woman
• dowager
• dame

Related words: (words related to MOTHER)

• MATRONAL
  Of or pertaining to a matron; suitable to an elderly lady or to a married woman; grave; motherly.
• MATRON
  1. A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners. Your wives, your daughters, Your matrons, and your maids. Shak. Grave from her cradle, insomuch that she was a matron before she was a
• MOTHER-OF-PEARL
  The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
• MOTHER'S DAY
  A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who
• MOTHERING
  A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar.
• WOMANLY
  Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
• MOTHERLESS
  Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children.
• MOTHER-OF-THYME
  An aromatic plant ; -- called also wild thyme.
• MATRONIZE
  1. To make a matron of; to make matronlike. Childbed matronizes the giddiest spirits. Richardson. 2. To act the part of a marton toward; to superintend; to chaperone; as, to matronize an assembly.
• MOTHERLINESS
  The state or quality of being motherly.
• DOWAGERISM
  The rank or condition of a dowager; formality, as that of a dowager. Also used figuratively. Mansions that have passed away into dowagerism. Thackeray.
• WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
  Womanhood. Chaucer.
• MATRONLY
  1. Advanced in years; elderly. 2. Like, or befitting, a matron; grave; sedate.
• MATRONYMIC
  See METRONYMIC
• MOTHER-IN-LAW
  The mother of one's husband or wife.
• WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
  An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.
• MOTHER-NAKED
  Naked as when born.
• MOTHERHOOD
  The state of being a mother; the character or office of a mother.
• WOMANHOOD
  1. The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind. Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. Spenser. Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood. Tennyson. 2.
• MOTHERWORT
  A labiate herb , of a bitter taste, used popularly in medicine; lion's tail. The mugwort. See Mugwort.
• AIRWOMAN
  A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• UNWOMAN
  To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning.
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• STEPMOTHER
  The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
• BONDSWOMAN
  See BONDWOMAN
• NEEDLEWOMAN
  A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
• DAIRYWOMAN
  A woman who attends to a dairy.