mother
noun/ˈmʌðər/
Слово англійською: mother
Переклад mother українською: ма́ти (ма́ма), ма́тір, мату́ся, рі́дна мо́ва, перламу́тр, породі́лля, ма́ти-одина́чка
Детальний опис
- a female parent of a child or animal; a person who is acting as a mother to a child
- I want to buy a present for my mother and father.
- the relationship between mother and baby
- She's the mother of twins.
- a mother of three (= with three children)
- a young/new/single mother
- an expectant (= pregnant) mother
- Jenny is a stay-at-home mother of three.
- Affordable childcare is critical for working mothers.
- She was a wonderful mother to both her natural and adopted children.
- the mother chimpanzee caring for her young
- the title of a woman who is head of a convent (= a community of nuns) see also Mother Superior
Word OriginOld English mōdor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch moeder and German Mutter, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin mater and Greek mētēr.
Idioms
at your mother’s knee
- when you were very young
- I learnt these songs at my mother's knee.
the mother of (all) something
- (informal) used to emphasize that something is very large, unpleasant, important, etc.
- I got stuck in the mother of all traffic jams.
necessity is the mother of invention
- (saying) a difficult new problem forces people to think of a solution to it
old enough to be somebody’s father/mother
- (disapproving) very much older than somebody (especially used to suggest that a romantic or sexual relationship between the two people is not appropriate)