surrogate mother

1. 1.

   a woman who bears a child for a couple where the wife is unable to do so

   “a surrogate mother is artificially inseminated with the father's semen and carries the fetus to term”

   Broadermother

Questions about surrogate mother

What does surrogate mother mean?

surrogate mother means "a woman who bears a child for a couple where the wife is unable to do so".

Is surrogate mother a common word?

surrogate 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.