mother

1. 1.

   care for like a mother

   “She fusses over her husband”

   Synonymsfussoverprotect

   Broadercare
2. 2.

   make (offspring) by reproduction

   “Abraham begot Isaac”

   “John fathered four daughters”

   Synonymsbegetgetengenderfathersiregeneratebring forth

   Broadermake

Other forms of mother

plural

mothers·

past tense

motherred·

present participle

motherring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mother

What does mother mean?

mother means "a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mother?

mother has 2 syllables: mot-her. The stress falls on "mot". In IPA it is /ˈmʌðɚ/.

What is another word for mother?

Close synonyms include female parent, fuss, overprotect, beget, get. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of mother?

The recorded antonyms are father.

Is mother a common word?

mother is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with mother?

3 words rhyme with mother. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.