[Sửa]Dam, materfamilias, (female) parent, Old-fashioned orformal or jocular mater, Formal progenitrix; matriarch, Colloqma, old lady, old woman, Brit mummy, mum, US mom, mommy, mama,mamma, maw, mammy, mam: He runs crying to his mother wheneveranyone teases him.
[Sửa]Source, origin, genesis: Necessity is themother of invention.
[Sửa]Nourisher, nurturer, nurse: Poverty wasthe mother of anarchy.
[Sửa]Nurture, nourish, nurse, care for, look after, protect,shelter, watch over, take care of: She mothered me when Ineeded her, and I won't desert her now.
[Sửa]Pamper, baby, coddle,spoil, indulge, fuss over, overprotect: You mother the childtoo much.
[Sửa]A a woman in relation to a child or children towhom she has given birth. b (in full adoptive mother) a womanwho has continuous care of a child, esp. by adoption.
[Sửa]Anyfemale animal in relation to its offspring.
[Sửa]A quality orcondition etc. that gives rise to another (necessity is themother of invention).
[Sửa](in full Mother Superior) the head of afemale religious community.
[Sửa]Archaic (esp. as a form ofaddress) an elderly woman.
[Sửa](attrib.) a designating aninstitution etc. regarded as having maternal authority (MotherChurch; mother earth). b designating the main ship, spacecraft,etc., in a convoy or mission (the mother craft).
[Sửa]USan equivalent day on the second Sunday in May. mother's ruincolloq. gin. mother's son colloq. a man (every mother's sonof you). mother tongue 1 one's native language.
[Sửa]A languagefrom which others have evolved. mother wit native wit; commonsense.
[Sửa]Motherhood n. motherless adj. motherlessness n.motherlike adj. & adv. [OE modor f. Gmc]