MOTHER Synonyms

• a master's degree in arts and sciences

• informal terms for a mother

• one thousandth of an ampere

• a state in New England, with capital Boston; one of the original 13 colonies

• a member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala

• a Mayan language spoken by the Mam

• informal terms for a mother

• a name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped, meaning 'Mother'

• informal terms for a mother

• milk-secreting organ of female mammals

• an offensive term for a Black nursemaid in the southern U.S.

• informal terms for a mother

• an informal use of the Latin word for mother; sometimes used by British schoolboys or used facetiously

• a female head of a family or tribe

• a feisty older woman with a big bosom (as drawn in cartoons)

• informal terms for a mother

• of China

• informal terms for a mother

• secrecy

• failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to

• informal terms for a mother

• a body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial (as in ancient Egypt)

• a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian

• an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained

• look after a child until it is an adult

• an ancestor in the direct line

• a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

• `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military

• the founder of a family

• (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom

• God when considered as the first person in the Trinity

• a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization

• a person who founds or establishes some institution

• the head of an organized crime family

• make (offspring) by reproduction

• make (offspring) by reproduction

• call forth

• make (offspring) by reproduction

• an excited state of agitation

• an angry disturbance

• a quarrel about petty points

• a rapid active commotion

• worry unnecessarily or excessively

• care for like a mother

• produce, create

• give or supply

• produce (energy)

• make (offspring) by reproduction

• a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent

• come into the possession of something concrete or abstract

• enter or assume a certain state or condition

• cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition

• receive a specified treatment (abstract)

• reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress

• go or come after and bring or take back

• go through (mental or physical states or experiences)

• take vengeance on or get even

• achieve a point or goal

• cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner

• succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase

• come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)

• be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness

• communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone

• give certain properties to something

• move into a desired direction of discourse

• grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of

• attract and fix

• reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot

• reach by calculation

• acquire as a result of some effort or action

• purchase

• perceive by hearing

• suffer from the receipt of

• receive as a retribution or punishment

• leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form

• reach and board

• irritate

• evoke an emotional response

• apprehend and reproduce accurately

• earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher

• overcome or destroy

• be a mystery or bewildering to

• take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

• undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)

• make (offspring) by reproduction

• the father of your father or mother