earth mother

1. 1.

   the earth conceived of as the female principle of fertility

   Broaderearth-goddess

Questions about earth mother

What does earth mother mean?

earth mother means "the earth conceived of as the female principle of fertility".

Is earth mother a common word?

earth mother is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.