1. mother(n = noun.person) female parent - a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother); "the mother of three children"
is a kind of parent
has particulars: ma, mama, mamma, mammy, mom, momma, mommy, mum, mummy, mater, mother-in-law, para i, primipara, puerpera, quadripara, quintipara, supermom, surrogate mother, blessed virgin, madonna, mary, the virgin, virgin mary
Antonym: father
Derived forms verb mother2, verb mother1, noun motherhood1, adjective motherly1
2. mother(n = noun.substance) - a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar;
is a kind of barm, yeast
3. mother(n = noun.person) - a term of address for an elderly woman;
is a kind of old woman
4. mother(n = noun.person) - a term of address for a mother superior;
is a kind of abbess, mother superior, prioress
5. mother(n = noun.cognition) - a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation; "necessity is the mother of invention"
is a kind of inspiration
1. mother(v = verb.social) fuss, overprotect - care for like a mother; "She fusses over her husband"
is one way to care, give care
Derived form noun mother1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
2. mother(v = verb.body) beget, bring forth, engender, father, generate, get, sire - make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them"
is one way to create, make
Derived form noun mother1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
1. A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child. [1913 Webster]
2. That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix. [1913 Webster]
"Alas! poor country! . . . it can not
Be called our mother, but our grave." [1913 Webster]
"I behold . . . the solitary majesty of Crete, mother of a religion, it is said, that lived two thousand years." [1913 Webster]
3. An old woman or matron. [1913 Webster]
4. The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc. [1913 Webster]
5. Hysterical passion; hysteria. Shak. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
"It is the mother falsehood from which all idolatry is derived." [1913 Webster]
To adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a mother to. [1913 Webster]
"The queen, to have put lady Elizabeth besides the crown, would have mothered another body's child." [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
" The film is composed of a mass of rapidly developing microörganisms of the genus
To become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as vinegar. [1913 Webster]
1. Same as motherfucker. [PJC]
2. A person or thing with some exceptional quality, as great size or power; as, a grizzly stuck his nose in my tent and I grabbed my pistol and shot the mother. [PJC]
mother, n. & v.
--n.
1 a a woman in relation to a child or children to whom she has given birth. b (in full adoptive mother) a woman who has continuous care of a child, esp. by adoption.
2 any female animal in relation to its offspring.
3 a quality or condition etc. that gives rise to another (necessity is the mother of invention).
4 (in full Mother Superior) the head of a female religious community.
5 archaic (esp. as a form of address) an elderly woman.
6 (attrib.) a designating an institution etc. regarded as having maternal authority (Mother Church; mother earth). b designating the main ship, spacecraft, etc., in a convoy or mission (the mother craft).
--v.tr.
1 give birth to; be the mother of.
2 protect as a mother.
3 give rise to; be the source of.
4 acknowledge or profess oneself the mother of.
Idiom:
Mother Carey's chicken = storm petrel 1. mother country a country in relation to its colonies. mother-figure an older woman who is regarded as a source of nurture, support, etc. Mother Goose rhyme US a nursery rhyme. mother-in-law (pl. mothers-in-law) the mother of one's husband or wife. mother-in-law's tongue a plant, Sansevieria trifasciata, with long erect pointed leaves. mother-lode Mining the main vein of a system. mother naked stark naked. mother-of-pearl a smooth iridescent substance forming the inner layer of the shell of some molluscs. Mother's Day
1 Brit. = MOTHERING SUNDAY.
2 US an equivalent day on the second Sunday in May. mother's ruin colloq. gin. mother's son colloq. a man (every mother's son of you).
mother tongue
1 one's native language.
2 a language from which others have evolved. mother wit native wit; common sense.
Derivative:
motherhood n. motherless adj. motherlessness n. motherlike adj. & adv.
Etymology:
OE modor f. Gmc
N uncleanness, impurity, immundity, immundicity, impurity, defilement, contamination, defoedation, soilure, soiliness, abomination, leaven, taint, tainture, fetor, decay, putrescence, putrefaction, corruption, mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo, slovenry, slovenliness, squalor, dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dust-man, sweep, beast, dirt, filth, soil, slop, dust, cobweb, flue, smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff, sossle, sozzle, sordes, dregs, grounds, lees, argol, sediment, settlement heeltap, dross, drossiness, mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders, recrement, slag, scum, froth, hogwash, ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater, rinsings, cheeseparings, sweepings, offscourings, outscourings, off scum, caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff, scurf, scurfiness, exuviae, morphea, fur, furfur, dandruff, tartar, riffraff, vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch, mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh, spawn, offal, gurry, lientery, garbage, carrion, excreta, slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria, faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit, sewage, sewerage, muck, coprolite, guano, manure, compost, dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes, toilet, john, head, cess, cesspool, sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer, Cloacina, dust hole, sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption, slum, rookery, dirty, filthy, grimy, unclean, impure, soiled, not to be handled with kid gloves, dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky, thick, turbid, dreggy, slimy, mussy, slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly, unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed, uncombed, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified, squalid, lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly, nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy, fetid, decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty, putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied, saprogenic, saprogenous, purulent, carious, peccant, fecal, feculent, stercoraceous, excrementitious, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous, gory, bloody, rotting, rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese, crapulous, gross, fimetarious, fimicolous, they that touch pitch will be defiled.
N paternity, parentage, consanguinity, parent, father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba, genitor, progenitor, procreator, ancestor, grandsire, grandfather, great- grandfather, fathership, fatherhood, mabap, house, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan, genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry, forefathers, forbears, patriarchs, motherhood, maternity, mother, dam, mamma, materfamilias, grandmother, paternal, parental, maternal, family, ancestral, linear, patriarchal, avi numerantur avorum, happy he with such a mother, hombre bueno no le busquen abolengo, philosophia stemma non inspicit.
den mother, earth mother, foster mother, great mother, mother board, mother carey's chicken, mother carey's hen, mother cell, mother country, mother figure, mother fucker, mother goose, mother hen, mother hubbard, mother jones, mother lode, mother of god, mother of thyme, mother seton, mother superior, mother teresa, mother theresa, mother tongue, mother wit, queen mother, spore mother cell, surrogate mother
1. son(n = noun.person) boy - a male human offspring; "their son became a famous judge"; "his boy is taller than he is"
is a kind of male offspring, man-child
has particulars: jnr, jr, junior, mama's boy, mamma's boy, mother's boy, esau
Antonym: daughter
2. son(n = noun.person) logos, word - the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus);
is a kind of hypostasis, hypostasis of christ
has particulars: messiah, christ, deliverer, good shepherd, jesus, jesus christ, jesus of nazareth, redeemer, savior, saviour, the nazarene
1. A male child; the male issue, or offspring, of a parent, father or mother. [1913 Webster]
"Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son." [1913 Webster]
2. A male descendant, however distant; hence, in the plural, descendants in general. [1913 Webster]
"I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings." [1913 Webster]
"I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed." [1913 Webster]
3. Any young male person spoken of as a child; an adopted male child; a pupil, ward, or any other young male dependent. [1913 Webster]
"The child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son." [1913 Webster]
"Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift." [1913 Webster]
4. A native or inhabitant of some specified place; as, sons of Albion; sons of New England. [1913 Webster]
5. The produce of anything. [1913 Webster]
"Earth's tall sons, the cedar, oak, and pine." [1913 Webster]
6. Jesus Christ, the Savior; -- called the Son of God, and the Son of man. [1913 Webster]
" The expressions son of pride, sons of light, son of Belial, are Hebraisms, which denote persons possessing the qualitites of pride, of light, or of Belial, as children inherit the qualities of their ancestors." [1913 Webster]
"We . . . do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world." [1913 Webster]
"Who gave His Son sure all has given." [1913 Webster]
son, n.
1 a boy or man in relation to either or both of his parents.
2 a a male descendant. b (foll. by of) a male member of a family, nation, etc.
3 a person regarded as inheriting an occupation, quality, etc., or associated with a particular attribute (sons of freedom; sons of the soil).
4 (in full my son) a form of address esp. to a boy.
5 (the Son) (in Christian belief) the second person of the Trinity.
Idiom:
son-in-law (pl. sons-in-law) the husband of one's daughter. son of a bitch sl. a general term of contempt. son of a gun colloq. a jocular or affectionate form of address or reference.
Derivative:
sonless adj. sonship n.
Etymology:
OE sunu f. Gmc
N posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat, family, grandchildren, heirs, great-grandchild, child, son, daughter, butcha, bantling, scion, acrospire, plumule, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit, branch, off-shoot, off- set, ramification, descendant, heir, heiress, heir-apparent, heir- presumptive, chip off the old block, heredity, rising generation, straight descent, sonship, line, lineage, filiation, primogeniture, filial, diphyletic, the child is father of the man, the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, like father, like son.
favorite son, favourite son, foster son, god the son, mother's son, prodigal son, son of a bitch, son of god, wisdom of jesus the son of sirach