mother

Các nghĩa

1. má · mẹ · mợ

   A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, fostered, etc).

   I am visiting my mother any moment.

   The lioness was a mother of four cubs.

   My sister-in-law has just become a mother for the first time.

2. đồ khốn nạn

   A pregnant female; mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.

   Nutrients and oxygen obtained by the mother are conveyed to the fetus.

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

   To clone a boy, it is necessary to have a man as a DNA donor, a woman as an egg donor, and may be another woman as a surrogate mother.

3. cực kỳ, khủng khiếp

   A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.

4. A female ancestor.

   figuratively

   And Adã called his wyfe Heua⸝ becauſe ſhe was the mother of all that lyveth

5. A source or origin.

   figuratively

   Near-synonym: matrix

   The Mediterranean was mother to many cultures and languages.

   Alas poore Countrey, / Almoſt affraid to know it ſelfe. It cannot / Be call’d our Mother, but our Graue;

6. Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. (See mother of all.)

   Near-synonym: Big One

   1991, January 17, Saddam Hussein, Broadcast on Baghdad state radio. The great duel, the mother of all battles has begun.

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• mothers plural