Mother I Relationship Noun ˈmʌðə(R ˈmʌðər Buy Present

• 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)

mother

1. a female parent of a child or animal; a person who is acting as a mother to a child
• SEE ALSO birth mother
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/birth-mother
• 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

Extra Examples

• The new candidate was raised by a single mother in South London.
• She acted as a surrogate mother to the brothers.
• Her distraught mother had spent all night waiting by the phone.
• She felt proud that she had raised four children as a lone mother.
• She inherited the urge to travel from her mother.
• The boys were like their father, but Louise took after her mother.
• The court decided she was an unfit mother.
• caring for his sick mother
• his beloved mother
• the proud mother of the bride
• This is my mother, Joan.
2. the title of a woman who is head of a convent (= a community of nuns)
• SEE ALSO Mother Superior
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/mother-superior
3. when you were very young
• I learnt these songs at my mother's knee.
4. used to emphasize that something is very large, unpleasant, important, etc.
• I got stuck in the mother of all traffic jams.
5. a difficult new problem forces people to think of a solution to it
6. very much older than somebody (especially used to suggest that a romantic or sexual relationship between the two people is not appropriate)

Word Origin

• Old English mōdor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch moeder and German Mutter, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin mater and Greek mētēr.