mother

mother
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
n. parent, mama; abbess, prioress; matron, matriarch. See ancestry, clergy, female.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [A female parent]
Syn. parent, ancestress, matriarch, mamma, dam, materfamilias, mater, mama*, mammy*, motherkin*, mum*, mummy*, ma*, mom*, mommy*, muzzer*, maw*; see also parent , relative .
2. [A matron]
Syn. superintendent, mother superior, housemother; see administrator .
3. [The source]
Syn. fountainhead, font, beginning; see origin 2 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)
I
n.
1. mom matriarch, parent, matron, nurturer, caregiver, *hand that rocks the cradle, foster mother, adoptive mother, mother-in-law, *mama, *mum, *mumsy, *old lady.
2. source origin, originator, womb, cradle. What God made because He could not be everywhere.''—Adapated from Jewish proverb. God's deputy on earth.''— Rahel Varnhagen. see family
II
v.
nurture, raise, rear, bring up, parent, foster, nourish, protect, nurse, care for, over-protect, spoil, smother, coddle.
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. A person from whom one is descended: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, father, forebear, forefather, foremother, parent, progenitor. Archaic: predecessor. See KIN, PRECEDE. 2. A point of origination: beginning, derivation, fount, fountain, fountamhead, origin, parent, provenance, provenience, root1, rootstock, source, spring, well1. See START.

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