Mothername

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  datedOne's mother.

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  WiccalifestylereligionOne of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Maiden and representing a woman older than a girlish Maiden but younger than an aged Crone.

  • ...different stages of life as represented by our Lady as Maiden, Mother, and Crone, as well as our Lord as Master, Father, and Sage.
  • The Lady is often thought of as having three aspects: Maiden, Mother, and Crone.

Mothernoun

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  A title given to a nun or a priestess.

  • Mother Teresa Gertrude O’Sullivan, then Provincial, did not give higher education for Loreto nuns the same priority as had Mothers Gonzaga and Stanislaus.
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  A title given to the personification of a force of nature or abstract concept, such as Mother Nature, Mother Russia, or Mother Earth.

mothernoun詞源 1/ˈmʌð.ə/

• 1

  A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, fostered, etc).

  • I am visiting my mother any moment.
  • The lioness was a mother of four cubs.
• 2

  A pregnant female; mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.

  • Nutrients and oxygen obtained by the mother are conveyed to the fetus.
  • The antiabortion iconography in the last decade featured the fetus but never the mother.
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  A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.

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  A female ancestor.

  • And Adã called his wyfe Heua⸝ becauſe ſhe was the mother of all that lyveth
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  A source or origin.

  • Near-synonym: matrix
  • The Mediterranean was mother to many cultures and languages.
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  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.
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  datedA title of respect for one's mother-in-law.

  • Mother Smith, meet my cousin, Doug Jones.
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  datedA term of address for one's wife.

  • A few minutes later we were all seated comfortably, Uncle Dave and mother, as he called his wife, myself and my husband, in the split-bottomed wooden chairs, on the vine-covered porch. / “Is Bethel a Methodist Church?” I asked. / Uncle Dave looked quizzically at his wife. “Do you hear that, mother?” he said.
  • On some days as he got near the house he would call out to his wife: / “Almighty Moses, Martha! who left the sprinkler on the grass?” / On other days he would call to her from quite a little distance off: “Hullo, mother! Got any supper for a hungry man?”

motherverb詞源 2/ˈmʌð.ə/

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  To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.)

  • Q's sister, Debbie, had mothered two kids by the time she was twenty, with neither of the fathers in sight.
  • Zilpah, Leah's maid, mothered two sons for Jacob, Gad and Asher. Leah became pregnant once more and had two more sons, Issachar, and Zebulun, and a daughter, Dinah, thus Leah had seven children for Jacob.
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  To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.

  • She had seen fewer years than any of us, but she was of such superb Evehood and simplicity that she mothered us from the beginning.
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  To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”).

  • mothered oil, mothered vinegar, mothered wine
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  To develop mother.

  • Iron rusted, paper cracked, cream soured and vinegar mothered.
  • Your lamp was always polished, wick trimmed, waiting; yet the bridegroom somehow never came. Summer dust settled in the vineyard. Grapes were harvested; your parents crushed and pressed them, but the wine mothered.

mothernoun詞源 3/ˈmʌð.ə/

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  vulgarslangMotherfucker.

  • (Burn, baby, burn) Disco inferno / (Burn, baby, burn) Burn the mother down
  • Stick a votive candle in it and fire that mother up, right?
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  A striking example. (Appears as "mother of a(n) __".)

  • November, 1943 If ever, Cortney Anders promised himself, I get out of this mother of a thunderstorm there is a thing I will do if it is the last act of my life.
  • Some hot night there's gonna be one mother of a riot down here. Just wait." He'd been saying the same thing since 1958, five years of crying wolf.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• moth-er