MOTHER
\mˈʌðə], \mˈʌðə], \m_ˈʌ_ð_ə]\
Definitions of MOTHER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them"
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a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother); "the mother of three children"
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care for like a mother; "She fusses over her husband"
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a term of address for an elderly woman
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a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar
By Princeton University
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make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them"
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a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother); "the mother of three children"
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care for like a mother; "She fusses over her husband"
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a term of address for an elderly woman
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a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.
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That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix.
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An old woman or matron.
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The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc.
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Hysterical passion; hysteria.
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Received by birth or from ancestors; native, natural; as, mother language; also acting the part, or having the place of a mother; producing others; originating.
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To adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a mother to.
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A film or membrane which is developed on the surface of fermented alcoholic liquids, such as vinegar, wine, etc., and acts as a means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid, thus leading to their oxidation.
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To become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as vinegar.
By Oddity Software
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A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.
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That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix.
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An old woman or matron.
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The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc.
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Hysterical passion; hysteria.
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Received by birth or from ancestors; native, natural; as, mother language; also acting the part, or having the place of a mother; producing others; originating.
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To adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a mother to.
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A film or membrane which is developed on the surface of fermented alcoholic liquids, such as vinegar, wine, etc., and acts as a means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid, thus leading to their oxidation.
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To become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as vinegar.
By Noah Webster.
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A female parent; one who has given birth to anything; origin or source; as, necessity is the mother of invention; the female superior of a religious house; a thick, slimy substance or film in liquids.
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To act as a mother to, or to adopt, as a son or daughter.
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Native; as, one's mother tongue; producing others.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. The female parent. 2. Any cell or other structure from which other similar bodies are formed.
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A stringy sediment in vinegar, the fungus of acetous fermentation, Mycoderma aceti.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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A female parent, esp. of the human race: a matron: that which has produced anything.
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Received by birth, as it were from one's mother: natural: acting the part of a mother: originating.
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To adopt as a son or daughter.
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Dregs or sediment, as of vinegar.
By Daniel Lyons
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A female parent.
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To act as a mother toward.
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To form mother, as vinegar.
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Native; maternal.
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A stringy substance formed in fermenting vinegar; dregs.
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Mothery.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Native; natural; received, as from one's mother; giving birth, as a mother.
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A female parent; a woman who has borne a child; a producer; a superior in a religious house.
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A thick slimy substance concreted in liquors.
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To adopt as a son or daughter. Mother Carey's chickens, stormy petrels.
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To concrete, as the thick matter of liquors.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A woman that has borne offspring; a female parent; that which has produced anything; that which is oldest and chief; a familiar term of address to an elderly woman; the dregs from certain liquids, as vinegar.
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Native; natural; received from parents or ancestors.
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To adopt or ascribe to, as a son or daughter.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] A female parent; especially, a female parent of the human race;- that which has produced any thing; source of birth or origin;- a familiar term of address to elderly women; also, to a woman who exercises parental care and influence over a person, undertaking, &c.;- the superior of a convent; abbess;- a thick, slimy substance concreted in liquors, particularly in vinegar.
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Received by birth or from ancestors; natural;- native; vernacular.
