mother lode

1. 1.

   the main vein of ore in a deposit

   Synonymschampion lode

   Broaderlode

Questions about mother lode

What does mother lode mean?

mother lode means "the main vein of ore in a deposit".

What is another word for mother lode?

Close synonyms include champion lode. 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.

Is mother lode a common word?

mother lode 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.