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(n)
A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
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(v)
To protect to an excessive degree; to coddle
(transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
To create, generate, bring into existence.
(dated) Offspring, especially illegitimate.
(countable or uncountable) Excessive activity, worry, bother, or talk about something.
To produce or bring forth (a child); to be a parent of; to father or sire.
(transitive) To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
The state of being a mother; motherhood.
(adj)
Of or pertaining to a mother; having the characteristics of a mother; motherly.
(adv)
In a maternal manner; motherly, as a mother.
(India) mother
(African-American Vernacular) Affectionate term of address for one's mother.
A mother of someone's parent.
(hypocoristic, usually childish, Canada, US) Mother, female parent.
(Canada, South Africa, US, West Midlands, colloquial, informal) Mother.
(Commonwealth, Ireland, informal) Mother.
(US, Canada, usually childish) Mother.
(UK, Ireland, regional, informal, colloquial) Mum, mom; diminutive of mother.
(childish) mamma; mother
(US, colloquial) Mother.
The practice of being a surrogate mother.
(British, slang, now chiefly archaic or humorous) Mother.
(informal) A father, a male parent.
(chiefly Latin America, Philippines) mommy, mother
(informal) Grandmother.
(colloquial) A grandmother.
One's male offspring.
(often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse.
(polite or used by children) A woman: an adult female human.
A female.
(US) People in general; everybody or anybody.
An adult female human.
The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
(British) Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.
One of the female (feminine) sex or gender.
(countable) A place where nursing (“breastfeeding”) or the raising of children is carried on.
A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
The country of one's birth.
The country of one's birth, origin.
A deity or supreme being; a supernatural, typically immortal, being with superior powers, to which personhood is attributed.
A wooden plaque bearing a prayer or wish, left hanging at a Shinto shrine.
Someone who lives in modern times.
A range of values or locations.
(Scotland, slang) A ned; a bampot.
A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
Trouble taken doing something; attention to detail; careful effort.
(Canada, US, Australia, India) An educational institution for young children, usually between ages 4 and 6; nursery school.
(informal, mildly vulgar) A piece of solid feces.
A store or supply.
A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.
(countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.
Extreme pain.
Any animal that suckles its young; a mammal.
A person or object that carries someone or something else.
(anatomy) Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males.
The cavity or mold in which anything is formed.
(strictly) An adult female of the species Bos taurus, especially one that has calved.
Initialism of acute mountain sickness. [altitude sickness]
Boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line.
The ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.
An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
(UK) Initialism of British Medical Association, a trade union for doctors in the United Kingdom.
(often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.
A money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won.
Pinus thunbergii, the Japanese pine.
A female given name from Hebrew.
A female given name from Latin; Medieval variant of Julian and Juliana, revived and quite popular in Britain in the mid-twentieth century.
A city in Los Angeles County, California.
(N)
a 1989 American black comedy horror film directed by Bob Balaban and starring Randy Quaid, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis and Bryan Madorsky.
a 2016 Colombian short drama film directed by Simón Mesa Soto.
a bronze, stainless steel, and marble sculpture in several locations by the artist Louise Bourgeois.
The seventh month of Meitei traditional lunar calendar.
In Greek culture, a protective symbol resembling an eye, supposed to ward off the evil eye.
a genus of about six species of summer-flowering plants in the carrot family Apiaceae.
a 2021 American horror film written by Mario Miscione and Marcella Ochoa directed by Ryan Zaragoza.
(colloquial, and in direct address) mother, mama
(informal) Characteristic of a mum; motherly.
Alternative spelling of mommy. [(US, Canada, usually childish) Mother.]
A female leader of a family, a tribe or an ethnic or religious group.
The biological mother of an adopted child.