| inglese > italiano | |
| mother | |
| 1. sost. madre | |
| 2. verb. accudire | |
| inglese > inglese | |
| mother | |
| 1. subst. A (human) female who (a) 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 fema |  |
| 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. subst. A female parent of an animal. |  |
| The lioness was a mother of four cubs. |  |
| 3. subst. (figuratively) A female ancestor. |  |
| 4. subst. (figuratively) A source or origin. |  |
| The Mediterranean was mother to many cultures and languages. |  |
| 5. subst. Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. (See mother of all). |  |
| 6. subst. (when followed by a surname) A title of respect for one's mother-in-law. |  |
| Mother Smith, meet my cousin, Doug Jones. |  |
| 7. subst. (figuratively) Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community. |  |
| 8. subst. (figuratively) Any person or entity which performs mothering. |  |
| 9. subst. The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed. |  |
| 10. subst. The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc. |  |
| 11. subst. (obsolete) Hysterical passion; hysteria. |  |
| 12. v. (chiefly transitive) To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.) |  |
| 13. v. To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture. |  |
| 14. subst. A stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance (consisting of acetobacters) which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids (such as wine, or cider), and turns the alcohol into acetic acid |  |
| pieces of mother, adding mother to vinegar |  |
| 15. v. To cause to contain mother, , that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar. |  |
| mothered oil / vinegar / wine |  |
| 16. v. (intransitive, of an alcohol) To develop mother. |  |
| 17. subst. (euphemistic, coarse, slang) Motherfucker. |  |
| 18. subst. (euphemistic, colloquial) A striking example. |  |
| 19. subst. alternative form of moth-er |  |
| italiano > inglese | |
| madre | |
| 1. subst. mother |  |