1 a female parent of a child or animal; a person who is acting as a mother to a child:
I want to buy a present for my mother and father. * the relationship between mother and baby * She's the mother of twins. * a mother of three (= with three children) * an expectant (= pregnant) mother * She was a wonderful mother to both her natural and adopted children. * the mother chimpanzee caring for her young
2 the title of a woman who is head of a CONVENT (= a community of NUNS)
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IDIOMS
at your mother's knee when you were very young:
I learnt these songs at my mother's knee.
the mother of (all) sth (informal) used to emphasize that sth is very large, unpleasant, important, etc:
I got stuck in the mother of all traffic jams.
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verb [VN] to care for sb/sth because you are their mother, or as if you were their mother:
He was a disturbed child who needed mothering. * Stop mothering me!
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for mother is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is mother a noun, verb, or something else?
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