Meaning

• Noun

  1. A female parent, sometimes especially a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
  2. A female who has given birth to a baby; this person in relation to her child or children.
  3. A pregnant female; mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.
  4. A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.
  5. A female ancestor.
  6. A source or origin.
  7. Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. (See mother of all.)
  8. A title of respect for one's mother-in-law.
  9. A term of address for one's wife.
  10. Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
  11. Any person or entity which performs mothering.
  12. Dregs, lees; a stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance (consisting of a culture of acetobacters) which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids (such as wine, or cider), and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air.
  13. A locomotive which provides electrical power for a slug.
  14. The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
  15. The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
  16. (obsolete) Hysterical passion; hysteria; the uterus.
  17. A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
  18. aA person who is admired, respected, or looked up to within a particular fandom or community; see also: serve cunt

• Verb