mother

mother is a 6-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 11 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.
2. noun. That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix.
3. noun. An old woman or matron.
4. noun. The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc.
5. noun. Hysterical passion; hysteria.
6. adjective. Received by birth or from ancestors; native, natural; as, mother language; also acting the part, or having the place of a mother; producing others; originating.
7. transitive verb. To adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a mother to.
8. noun. A film or membrane which is developed on the surface of fermented alcoholic liquids, such as vinegar, wine, etc., and acts as a means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid, thus leading to their oxidation.
9. intransitive verb. To become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as vinegar.
10. noun. a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation

    "necessity is the mother of invention"

11. noun. a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)

    "the mother of three children"

12. noun. a term of address for a mother superior
13. noun. a term of address for an elderly woman
14. noun. a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar
15. verb. make children

    "Abraham begot Isaac"

    "Men often father children but don't recognize them"

    Synonyms: beget, engender, father, generate, get, sire

16. verb. care for like a mother

    "She fusses over her husband"

    Synonyms: fuss, overprotect

Synonyms

beget, engender, father, generate, get, sire, fuss, overprotect

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in mother:

thermo

Common word forms

mothers, mothered, motherer, motherly, mothering, motherless

Words from these letters

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