mother

mother

1. äiti

Liittyvät sanat: motherly

Synonyymisanakirja

mother

innoitus, inspiraatio, äiti, abbedissa, prioritar, mutsi, äippä, äiskä, naispuolinen vanhempi, isä, vanhempi.

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Englannin sanakirja

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1. A (human) female who (a) parentVerb parents a child (b) gives birth to a baby (c) donates a fertilized egg or (d) donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone. Sometimes used in reference to a pregnant female, possibly as a shortened form of mother-to-be.

I am visiting my mother^(a) today. — My sister-in-law has just become a mother.^(b) — Nutrients and oxygen obtained by the mother^(c) are conveyed to the fetus.

2. 1988, Robert Ferro, Second Son,

He had something of his mother in him, but this was because he realized that in the end only her love was unconditional, and in gratitude he had emulated her.

3. 1991, (w), The Undeclared War Against American Women,

The antiabortion iconography in the last decade featured the fetus but never the mother.

4. A female parent of an animal.

The lioness was a mother of four cubs.

5. puhekieltä A female ancestor.

6. 1525, w:William Tyndale|William Tyndale, s:Bible (Tyndale)|Bible, s:Bible (Tyndale)/GenesisChapter 3|Genesis, 3, xx,

And Ada^Adam called his wyfe Heua^Eve because she was the mother of all that lyveth

7. 1844, w:Thomas Arnold|Thomas Arnold, Fragment on the Church, Volume 1, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=hh8UAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA17&dq=%22mother+falsehood+from+which+all+idolatry+is+derived%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=p09OU4rYBYGbkgWItICgCg&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22mother%20falsehood%20from%20which%20all%20idolatry%20is%20derived%22&f=false page 17,

But one in the place of God and not God, is as it were a falsehood; it is the mother falsehood from which all idolatry is derived.

8. puhekieltä A source or origin.

The Mediterranean was mother to many cultures and languages.

9. 1606, w:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare, w:Macbeth Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 3, 1866, George Steevens (editor), The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=WiE4AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA278&dq=%22It+cannot+Be+call%27d+our+mother,+but+our+grave%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=W1pOU5v2LobykAX7m4GIDQ&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAAv=onepage&q=%22It%20cannot%20Be%20call'd%20our%20mother%2C%20but%20our%20grave%22&f=false page 278,

Alas, poor country: / Almost afraid to know itself! It cannot / Be call'd our mother, but our grave:

10. puhekieltä A title of respect for one's mother-in-law.

Mother Smith, meet my cousin, Doug Jones.

11. puhekieltä Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.

12. puhekieltä Any person or entity which performs mothering.

13. The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel. –Judges http://bible.cc/judges/5-7.htm 5:7, KJV.

14. Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. –Galatians http://bible.cc/galatians/4-26.htm 4:26, KJV.

15. The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.

16. The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.

17. puhekieltä Hysterical passion; hysteria.

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