See Also: mother 1, noun(dictionary)
mother yaw(medicine)
mother(1)(dictionary)
Age of mother(health)
mother(2)(dictionary)
MOTHER-IN-LAW(law)
mother(4)(dictionary)
mother's boy(dictionary)
mother(3)(dictionary)
mother-in-law(dictionary)

mother 1, noun (oh)



[Language: Old English; Origin: modor]
a female parent of a child or animal
::His mother and father are both doctors.
mother of two/three etc
(=mother of two/three etc children)
::Janet is a full-time teacher and a mother of two.
::the relationship between mother and child
::Goodnight, Mother.
::Mother said they'd met at university.
::If food is scarce, the mother will feed the smaller, weaker chicks.
mother cat/bird/hen etc
(=an animal that is a mother)
be (like) a mother to sb
to care for someone as if you were their mother
::She's like a mother to them. If they need anything she always helps out.
like a mother hen
if someone behaves like a mother hen, they try to protect their children too much and worry about them all the time
learn/be taught sth at your mother's knee
to learn something when you are a very young child
::the prayers which he had been taught at his mother's knee
the mother of sth
a) the origin or cause of something
::Westminster is known as 'the mother of parliaments'.
::Necessity is the mother of invention (=people have good ideas when the situation makes it necessary) .
b) informal a very severe or extreme type of something, usually something bad
::I woke up with the mother of all hangovers.
spoken especially AmE something very large and usually very good
::a real mother of a car
AmE taboo spoken motherfucker
Mother
a) used to address the woman who is in charge of a convent