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How to pronounce mother
Say it like this: /ˈmʌðɚ/. Listen to real recordings below and compare how it sounds in different accents.
What does mother mean?
nounA female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, fostered, etc).
“I am visiting my mother any moment.”
A pregnant female; mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.
“Nutrients and oxygen obtained by the mother are conveyed to the fetus.”
A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.
verbTo give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.)
“Q's sister, Debbie, had mothered two kids by the time she was twenty, with neither of the fathers in sight.”
To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
“She had seen fewer years than any of us, but she was of such superb Evehood and simplicity that she mothered us from the beginning.”
To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”).
“mothered oil, mothered vinegar, mothered wine”
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