| query | Your m_____ is the woman who gave birth to you. You can also call someone your mother if she brings you up as if she was this woman. You can call your mother 'Mother'.Your mother is the woman who gave birth to you. You can also call someone your mother if she brings you up as if she was this woman. You can call your mother 'Mother'. She sat on the edge of her mother's bed. She's an English teacher and a mother of two children. Mother and child form a close attachment. I'm here, Mother. |
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| word | mother |
| full-definition | noun Your mother is the woman who gave birth to you. You can also call someone your mother if she brings you up as if she was this woman. You can call your mother 'Mother'. She sat on the edge of her mother's bed. She's an English teacher and a mother of two children. Mother and child form a close attachment. I'm here, Mother. verb If a woman mothers a child, she looks after it and brings it up, usually because she is its mother. Colleen had dreamed of mothering a large family. The reality of mothering is frequently very different from the romantic ideal. If you mother someone, you treat them with great care and affection, as if they were a small child. She felt a great need to mother him. Stop mothering me. |
| inflections | mothersmotheringmotheredmummymothering |
| cefr-level | A1 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:a1
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