silver cord

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   the emotional bond between a mother and her offspring

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Questions about silver cord

What does silver cord mean?

silver cord means "the emotional bond between a mother and her offspring".

Is silver cord a common word?

silver cord 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.