as in mom
a female human parent
he dreaded telling his mother that her favorite figurine had gotten broken
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as in maternal
of, relating to, or characteristic of a mother
she often offered to babysit for friends, hoping to satisfy her mother urges until she had children of her own
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as in to have
to bring forth from the womb
I hope to mother at least one child
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as in to nurse
to attend to the needs and comforts of
mothered the patients with chicken soup
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Recent Examples of mother
Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Holding hands, the mother-son duo did a twirl and ended with a long hug.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2025
Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 28 May 2025
Lupita Nyong'o stars as Roz, a service robot who washes up on a small island with no human inhabitants and must figure out how to adapt her programming to the wilderness while mothering a baby goose.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 23 May 2025
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Noun
Maribel Munoz, the mother of Jurupa Valley player Alyssa McPherson, provided Fox News Digital a copy of a message sent by JVHS head coach Liana Manu, announcing that the varsity match against Patriot was forfeited.
—Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Holding hands, the mother-son duo did a twirl and ended with a long hug.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
One of her reasons for leaving was to focus on mothering her two daughters.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 28 May 2025
Lupita Nyong'o stars as Roz, a service robot who washes up on a small island with no human inhabitants and must figure out how to adapt her programming to the wilderness while mothering a baby goose.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 23 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mother
Noun
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Speaking to Variety at the Cinespia screening of Sinners at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on October 17, Coogler gave a shout-out to his mom and credited her with inspiring his new X-Files reboot.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
20 Oct. 2025
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Sometimes the easiest way to get news out of your mom is to set up a multi-camera shoot and ask the important questions on camera.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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He is also survived by his two maternal grandparents, Kathy and Harry Stark, and two paternal grandparents, Betty and Jerry, as well as several aunts and uncles.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
18 Oct. 2025
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Once upon a time, maternal unhappiness seemed like the third rail of cultural discourse, something too dangerous to touch.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
18 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The facility, which had about 80 employees, according to Hickman County Mayor Jim Bates, is about an hour southwest of Nashville, on the Hickman and Humphreys County lines.—
Isabel Rosales,
CNN Money,
16 Oct. 2025
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Forgery is also about persuasion, and certain forgeries have specific attributes.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
16 Oct. 2025
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Their sons were 13 months and 1 month old at the time, and Federline asked her not to go home and nurse them.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
16 Oct. 2025
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These migrants became figures left in a historical stasis, unable to face their present while nursing traumatic loss (their nostalgic literature constitutes an entire genre).—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
Verb
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There are videos flying around, with or without context; the US government is producing some, promoting others from random X accounts.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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Midway through the fourth quarter, the 49ers produced a fourth-down stop from their own 35-yard line.—
Cam Inman,
Mercury News,
20 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The Dreadnought vessels, due to enter service from the early 2030s, are the replacement for the Vanguard-class submarines, which currently deliver the Continuous At Sea Deterrent (CASD) for the Royal Navy.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Oct. 2025
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Let’s give some love to the guys who cleared the lanes for McCaffrey to deliver a vintage performance.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
20 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Just south of that, Lake Havasu birthed Lake Havasu City, a community of 50,000 people.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
17 Oct. 2025
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Lauryn Hill and D’Angelo were like twin stars birthing a new R&B universe in the late 1990s.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Mother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mother. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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