Mother | Mean of mother in English Dictionary

/ˈmʌðɚ/

• Noun
• a female parent
1. She became a mother when she was in her 20s.
2. She's the mother of three small children.
3. She has been like a mother to me.
4. Our dog is the mother of all those puppies.
5. She has always been close to her mother.
6. an expectant mother [=a woman who is pregnant]
7. She is a single mother. [=a mother who does not have a husband or partner]
• a woman who is thought of as being like a mother
1. She was a mother to me after my own mother died.
• a woman who invents or begins something
1. She is regarded as the mother of an entire industry.
2. the mother of an important social movement

• a cause or origin of something
1. Some say that scandal is the mother of reform.
• Verb
• to give birth to (a child)
1. She mothered two sons but no daughters.
• to be or act as mother to (someone)
1. 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]