Mother I Relationship Twins Noun Bre ˈmʌðə(R ˈmʌðər

• 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
• 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)
• an expectant (= pregnant) mother
• She was a wonderful mother to both her natural and adopted children.
• the mother chimpanzee caring for her young
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)

Extra Examples

• 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.
• The two boys were like their father in character, but Louise took after her mother.
• caring for his sick mother
• his beloved mother
• the proud mother of the bride
• She’s the mother of twins.
• This is my mother, Joan.
• an expectant mother

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.