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Synonyms for mother
ˈmʌð ərmoth·er

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Wiktionary5.0 / 1 vote

  1. Mothernoun

    Synonyms:
    Mummy, Mum, Goddess, Mom

    Antonyms:
    Father

  2. Mothernoun

    One's mother

    Synonyms:
    Mom, Mum, Mummy, Goddess

    Antonyms:
    Father

  3. Mothernoun

    A title given to a nun or a priestess

    Synonyms:
    Goddess, Mom, Mum, Mummy

    Antonyms:
    Father

  4. Mothernoun

    One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Maiden and representing a woman older than a virginal Maiden but younger than a old woman Crone.

    Synonyms:
    Goddess, Mum, Mummy, Mom

    Antonyms:
    Father

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. mother, female parentnoun

    a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)

    "the mother of three children"

    Synonyms:
    female parent

    Antonyms:
    begetter, father, male parent

  2. mothernoun

    a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar

    Synonyms:
    female parent

    Antonyms:
    male parent, begetter, father

  3. mothernoun

    a term of address for an elderly woman

    Synonyms:
    female parent

    Antonyms:
    male parent, father, begetter

  4. mothernoun

    a term of address for a mother superior

    Synonyms:
    female parent

    Antonyms:
    begetter, male parent, father

  5. motherverb

    a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation

    "necessity is the mother of invention"

    Synonyms:
    female parent

    Antonyms:
    male parent, father, begetter

  6. mother, fuss, overprotectverb

    care for like a mother

    "She fusses over her husband"

    Synonyms:
    get, fuss, overprotect, father, niggle, fret, sire, bring forth, beget, engender, generate

    Antonyms:
    begetter, male parent, father

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. mothernoun

    Synonyms:
    MAMMA, female parent, dam (applied to a beast)

  2. motheradjective

    Synonyms:
    native, natural

  3. motheradjective

    Synonyms:
    vernacular

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. mothernoun

    Synonyms:
    materfamilias, matron, matriarch, generatrix, dam

    Associated words:
    cognate, cognation, matricide, maternalism, uterine, matriarchy, matriarchal

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Words popularity by usage frequency

rankingword
#77get
#1388ma
#1430mother
#1692father
#1771parent
#2679mom
#3965generate
#5836stem
#6497mothers
#6509moms
#7775mere
#10016mama
#10330goddess
#12007mum
#12452maternal
#13755mommy
#18208mummy
#19956momma
#19965sire
#20976fuss
#21889mamma
#24926motherhood
#27090fret
#32392ema
#32595madre
#33914mam
#58050engender
#58864motherland
#80267mammy
#89838beget
#91367mati
#123942pmtct
#167642niggle

How to use mother in a sentence?

  1. Amanda Gorman:

    Somehow we've weathered and witnessed a nation that isn't broken, but simply unfinished. We, the successors of a country and a time where a skinny Black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming President, only to find herself reciting for one.

  2. Damon Cheronis:

    You don't call Harvey Weinstein a predator in 2020 when you want to introduce him to your mother in 2015.

  3. John Barrymore:

    My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.

  4. Tim Clemente:

    What it indicates is he was financing this operation or his life or his afterlife for his child and mother, using what is now wire fraud and bank fraud, so it's just two more additional charges that the FBI will be looking at.

  5. Johan Clarey:

    Everything came late in my life. Since I was a young boy, that’s what my mother said, i take extra time to do everything — walking and speaking and everything. Apparently, my career started quite the same.


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1 Comment
  • halukkaramete
    Looks like the "Words popularity by usage frequency" section for this word is completely off.
    LikeReply2 years ago
    • acronimous
      Why?
      LikeReply2 years ago
    • halukkaramete
      In that section, I see the following words as the top returns; have,
      get,
      find,
      go,
      make, t
      ake ....

      What's the relationship of all of those words to the word "mother"? Can you explain?
       
      LikeReply2 years ago
    • acronimous
      Indeed... this is slightly fixed now.
      LikeReply2 years ago
    • halukkaramete
      Very interesting. It does seem to make a whole lot more sense now. At least we can see entries like "mom", "mommy" and "mama which are excellent, and absolutely useful. But I'm very curious to see why and how the word "get" goes at the top of the list? And secondly, could you let me know what those numbers really mean such as get being 77, and parent being 1771? how do people make use of those numbers? 
      LikeReply2 years ago
    • acronimous
      Apparently 'get' is also an alternative word for mother in some sense according to the Princeton Wordnet project, therefore it is included in the list.

      The numbers associated with the terms are basically the rank of the specific word, among the other words, in terms of usage popularity as it has been calculated using a large corpus of text -- so 'get' is very high on the 77th position of the most popular words in english, while 'parent' is at position #1,771. 'mammy' is very uncommon at place #80267...

      Hope that helps.
       
      LikeReply2 years ago

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