earth mother

noun

variants often Earth Mother

1

: the earth viewed as the divine source of terrestrial life

2

: an embodiment of the female principle of fertility : a nurturing maternal woman

Examples of earth mother in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

And so is the explosion of island greenery at the end, courtesy of Te Fiti, who is really the earth mother. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 July 2026

Hacker is well cast as Suzanne, an earth mother type whose life revolves around her family and Eureka Day, not necessarily in that order. — Mary Damiano, Miami Herald, 27 May 2026

As Emilia, trans actress Karla Sofía Gascón has the warmth of an earth mother, but that warmth can't completely defrost the cold-bloodedness of her past. — Tom Gliatto, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024

Unlike Janet, an earth mother who exerts a gravitational pull on others, Lacy is too immersed in the conundrum of her own life to care about her effect on those around her. — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2024

The Aztecs similarly viewed toads as a source of fertility, in the form of the earth mother goddess Tlaltecuhtli. — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1832, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for earth mother

• another
• godmother
• grandmother
• stepbrother
• stepmother
• brother
• nother
• other
• smother
• souther