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mother

/ˈmʌðɚ/

US UK

noun

plural -ers

[count] :a female parent

She became a mother when she was in her 20s.

She's the mother of three small children.

She has been like a mother to me.

Our dog is the mother of all those puppies.

She has always been close to her mother.

an expectant mother [=a woman who is pregnant]

She is a single mother. [=a mother who does not have a husband or partner] - see also birth mother, grandmother, queen mother, stepmother, surrogate mother

[count] :a woman who is thought of as being like a mother

She was a mother to me after my own mother died. - see also den mother

[count] :a woman who invents or begins something - usually singular

She is regarded as the mother of an entire industry.

the mother of an important social movement

[singular] :a cause or origin of something

Some say that scandal is the mother of reform.

[count] :mother superior - used especially as a title or as a form of address

Mother Teresa

Thank you, Mother.

[singular] informal - used to say that something is larger, better, worse, etc., than all other things of the same kind

It has been described as the mother of all construction projects. [=an extremely large construction project]

[count] US offensive :motherfucker

That guy is one mean mother.

learn (something) at your mother's knee

xem knee

necessity is the mother of invention

used to say that new ways to do things are found or created when there is a strong and special need for them;

verb

-ers; -ered; -ering

[+ obj] to give birth to (a child)

She mothered two sons but no daughters.

to be or act as mother to (someone) :to care for or protect (someone) like a mother

He says he's old enough to care for himself and he doesn't want to be mothered. [=he doesn't want to be cared for as if he were a child]

* Các từ tương tự:
mother country, Mother Earth, mother figure, mother hen, mother lode, Mother Nature, mother ship, Mother Superior, mother tongue