Word Meanings - SEMELE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A daughter of Cadmus, and by Zeus mother of Bacchus.

Related words: (words related to SEMELE)

• 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.
• MOTHERLESS
  Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children.
• MOTHER-OF-THYME
  An aromatic plant ; -- called also wild thyme.
• DAUGHTERLY
  Becoming a daughter; filial. Sir Thomas liked her natural and dear daughterly affection towards him. Cavendish.
• MOTHERLINESS
  The state or quality of being motherly.
• MOTHER-IN-LAW
  The mother of one's husband or wife.
• DAUGHTERLINESS
  The state of a daughter, or the conduct becoming a daughter.
• MOTHER-NAKED
  Naked as when born.
• MOTHERHOOD
  The state of being a mother; the character or office of a mother.
• DAUGHTER
  doughter, doghter, dohter, AS. dohtor, dohter; akin to OS. dohtar, D. dochter, G. tochter, Icel. d, Sw. dotter, Dan. dotter, datter, Goth. daúhtar,, OSlav. d, Russ. doche, Lith. dukt, Gr. , Zendughdhar, Skr. duhit; possibly originally, the milker,
• MOTHER
  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
• MOTHERWORT
  A labiate herb , of a bitter taste, used popularly in medicine; lion's tail. The mugwort. See Mugwort.
• MOTHERED
  Thick, like mother; viscid. They oint their naked limbs with mothered oil. Dryden.
• MOTHERLY
  Of or pertaining to a mother; like, or suitable for, a mother; tender; maternal; as, motherly authority, love, or care. Hooker. Syn. -- Maternal; paternal. -- Motherly, Maternal. Motherly, being Anglo-Saxon, is the most familiar word of the two
• BACCHUS
  The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele.
• MOTHERLAND
  The country of one's ancestors; -- same as fatherland.
• DAUGHTER-IN-LAW
  The wife of one's son.
• MOTHERY
  Consisting of, containing, or resembling, mother .
• 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
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• STEPMOTHER
  The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
• STEPDAUGHTER
  A daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.
• SMOTHERINESS
  The quality or state of being smothery.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• SMOTHERINGLY
  In a smothering manner.
• THERMOTHERAPY
  Treatment of disease by heat, esp. by hot air.
• GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
  A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.