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# mother

«mother» in Mova's school dictionary: **a woman who has a child** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (mother, mothers); verb (mother, mothers, mothered — to care for like a mother)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A mother is a woman who has a child. Your mother is your mom or mum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mother/#m1)

2) An animal mother is the female that has babies: the mother bird. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mother/#m2)

3) To mother someone is to care for them, sometimes too much. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mother/#m3)

4) Something can be called the mother of another thing when it gives rise to it or brings it about. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mother/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

a person in the story who gives, buys or bakes things; sometimes her age is compared with a child's; in science mother animals feed and protect their young; phrases «Mother's Day», «mother tongue» (first language), «Mother Nature», «grandmother», «stepmother»

### examples

- His mother gave him 5 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mother/#x1)
- Her mother is 3 times as old as she is. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mother/#x2)
- Mother baked 24 cookies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mother/#x3)
- The mother bird brought 6 worms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mother/#x4)
- We made cards for Mother's Day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mother/#x5)
- The mother elephant protects her calf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mother/#x6)
- Her mother tongue is Spanish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mother/#x7)
- My mother is a nurse at the hospital. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mother/#x8)
- Necessity is the mother of invention. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mother/#x9)

### note

A person who acts, not a number. Age problems: «mother is 30 years older» means add. Trap: «3 times as old» means multiply, not add. Mom (US, Canada), Mum (UK, Australia, NZ), Mam (Ireland, some of the UK) are friendly words for mother.

### In the corpora

- [In March 2024 photo agencies withdrew a Mother's Day family photo because it had been edited, and the Princess apologised.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/45-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced/16/)
- [Wolves live in packs that are usually a family: a mother, a father and their young of different ages.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/24-wolves-and-dogs/4/)
- [Crocodiles lay eggs in nests; the mother guards them and carries the hatchlings to water in her mouth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/9/)
- [Scorpions are arachnids whose outer shell glows blue-green under ultraviolet light; mothers carry their babies on their backs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/38-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures/15/)
- [Ducklings follow the first moving thing they see after hatching, usually their mother; this is called imprinting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/123-bugs-bunny-and-daffy-duck-real-rabbits-hares-and-ducks/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mother» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mother/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.