Another word for mother
mother
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mother
n.
A female parent
parent, ancestress, matriarch, mamma, dam, materfamilias, mater, mama*, mammy*, motherkin*, mum*, mummy*, ma*, mom*, mommy*, muzzer*, maw*; see also parent, relative.
A matron
superintendent, mother superior, housemother; see administrator.
The source
fountainhead, font, beginning; see origin 2.
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Another word for mother
A person from whom one is descended:
ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, father, forebear, forefather, foremother, parent, progenitor. (Archaic) predecessor. See kin, precedeA point of origination:
beginning, derivation, fount, fountain, fountainhead, origin, parent, provenance, provenience, root1, rootstock, source, spring, well1. See start
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