1. a woman who has borne offspring; a female parent.
2. one’s own female parent: I should give Mother a call today.Our mother did not approve of many of the shenanigans we got up to.
3. a mother-in-law, stepmother, foster mother, female adoptive parent, or female guardian.
4. a term of address for a female parent or a woman having or regarded as having the status, function, or authority of a female parent: Thank you for coming, Mother.
5. a woman providing care or exercising influence or authority like that of a female parent: The elderly widow next door was a mother to him.
6. the qualities characteristic of a mother, such as maternal affection, protectiveness, responsibility, etc.: Sometimes the mother in her comes out and she'll remind her students to drive safely.
7. something that gives rise to something else; origin or source: Imagination is the mother of possibility.
8. a woman who originates or creates something:Marie Curie was the mother of radiography.
9. a title of respect for certain female church leaders, such as heads of convents, bishops, or priests.
10. a title for something personified as an older woman: Mother Earth.
11. a term of familiar address for an old or elderly woman.
12. a euphemism for motherfucker.
13. (in disk recording) a mold from which stampers are made.

14. being a female parent: I watched as the mother bird fed her baby.
15. of, relating to, or characteristic of a mother: mother love.
16. learned or acquired from or as if from one's mother; native: After emigrating, he never really abandoned his mother culture.
17. bearing a relation like that of a mother, as in being the origin, source, leader, protector, etc.: The mother company issues directives to all its affiliates.The server is the mother computer for the whole network.

18. to be the mother, origin, or source of: She mothered two children.
19. to care for or protect like a mother; act maternally toward, sometimes in an excessive way: It’s in her nature to love and mother those around her.Stop mothering me!
20. to acknowledge oneself the author of; assume as one's own.

21. to perform the tasks or duties of a female parent, sometimes in an excessive way; act maternally: She’s always wanted to mother.

22. the greatest or most notable example of: Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap has been called the mother of all mystery novels.

1. a stringy, mucilaginous substance consisting of various bacteria, especially Acetobacter aceti, that forms on the surface of a fermenting liquid and converts ethanol to acetic acid, as in changing wine or cider to vinegar.

• a female who has given birth to offspring
• (as modifier)
2. a person's own mother
3. a female substituting in the function of a mother
4. a term of address for an old woman
• motherly qualities, such as maternal affection
• (as modifier)
• (in combination)
• a female or thing that creates, nurtures, protects, etc, something
• (as modifier)
7. a title given to certain members of female religious orders
8. God as the eternal Principle
9. native or innate
10. offensive, taboo, slang, mainly US short for motherfucker offensive
11. to pour the tea
12. the greatest example of its kind

13. to give birth to or produce
14. to nurture, protect, etc as a mother

1. a stringy slime containing various bacteria that forms on the surface of liquids undergoing acetous fermentation. It can be added to wine, cider, etc to promote vinegar formation

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