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Main Entry:	mother [muhth-er] Show IPA/ˈmʌðər/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	female person who has borne children
Synonyms:	ancestor, child-bearer, creator, forebearer, mom, mommy, origin, parent, predecessor, procreator, progenitor, source
Antonyms:	father

Main Entry:	caregiver
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	person caring for child
Synonyms:	au pair, babysitter, caretaker, custodian, father, governess, mother, nanny, nurse, parent

Main Entry:	father/mother
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	founder, inventor
Synonyms:	administrator, architect, author, builder, creator, dean, elder, encourager, generator, initiator, introducer, leader, maker, matriarch, motor, mover, organizer, originator, patriarch, patron, prime mover, promoter, promulgator, publisher, sire, sponsor, supporter

Example Sentences

The photograph showed the son, but my eye gravitated toward the mother.

There followed the mother of all political blunders.

No bigger than a stick of butter, a newborn panda died after its sleeping mother rolled onto the cub.

The photograph showed the son, but my eye gravitated toward the mother.

There followed the mother of all political blunders.

No bigger than a stick of butter, a newborn panda died after its sleeping mother rolled onto the cub.

Maybe these traits would be beneficial to a mother cat feeding kittens.

Well, necessity always has been the mother of invention.

Once you're removed spent leaves, you may find zIllions of tiny hellebore seedlings emerging under the mother plants.

Alayiah's mother was sleeping in a nearby room during the incident.

Perhaps only a fiercely ambitious mother convinced that she, and she alone, knows best.

Watch an alligator mother defending her hatchlings.

If vinyl is a factor it is more likely that the mother has transmitted phthalates to the develoing ovum.

Snap a rosette from the mother plant, leaving a couple inches of stem attached.

Hans exposed the boy to such games and movies, and the mother objected.

For now, only the lawsuit that pit mother against daughter has been dropped.

Any human mother of multiples knows it's hard to raise two or more children of the same age at the same time.

My mother didn't want to let the fruit go to waste, so she made the apricots into pie filling and froze it.

The son, navigating to their destination, is perched on the front of the boat as the mother rows behind.

Everyone laughs and claps, the fiddler takes a bow, and the girl and her mother go into the market.

As a lioness tries to feed her cubs with a fresh kill, the prey's mother waits nearby to defend her young against its attacker.

The midwife's response was sent by the system to the mother.

Mother and son received reversal drugs and slowly awakened and moved back to the rest of the group.

Mother birds will reject their babies if they've been touched by humans.

They can be dangerous to humans, particularly if surprised or if a person gets between a mother bear and her cubs.

Being the mother as well as the ready-for-workplace.

Often all you need to do is stick around to convince a baby animal that you are its mother.

Mother will want to know what you've been up to, so here is a list of moms that you can say you've discovered at the museums.

She holds the world record as the youngest mother ever.

The typical mother of the bride is looking younger than ever and is shunning the traditional dress for something more daring.

Take the one about the mother who asked the dean to make sure her son was wearing his sweater.

After all, bearing and raising twins is taxing, both for the mother and for the children.

It may be one of nature's more heartbreaking scenes: a mountain gorilla mother refusing to let go.

My mother has the exact same problem she cannot seem to do anything to fix it either.

His mother is not gifted in the culinary arts, preferring to boil prefab dinners on.

Galli and his team removed a skin cell from the mother and fused it to an egg from which the nucleus had been removed.

It's that look your mother used to give you, the one that let you know she meant business.

His tigerish mother moved house three times before settling on one good.

Fowler, my mother could have saved you a lot of ink.

The mother worried constantly about their two young children because of the bombings and shootings.

The animal kingdom has gained a cousin and lost a mother.

The night before, he shot and killed his mother and his wife.

The egg seems designed for burial rather than for the nurturing embrace of a mother pterosaur.

The mother and baby koalas decided to climb down from the tall eucalyptus trees to get a.

Because the melody of an infant's cry matches its mother tongue.

Dante-who is separated from mother and baby-is not the fathering sort, he plays no part in the rearing of offspring.

My mother says that they would all sing and talk together while they milked.

My mother used to tell me and my brother that writing on our hands would give us blood poisoning.

My ex's mother had one, but she was terminally ill and in the hospital long-term, which is not the case for me.

At the reception desk, a mother pleads with staff to admit her son.

Mother black bears are notoriously protective of their cubs, who stay with their mothers for about two years.

As the toddler peers over her shoulder, the mother is preparing hides for her family to wear.

Police discovered the bodies of a mother and two teenagers when they arrived at the scene.

Amal's mother sent back a letter in reply saying how happy she was for son's twin, but sent no pictures.

Watch as a mother polar bear teaches her young the secrets of hunting, fighting, and.

He kept his mother constantly in sight as she obsessively cleaned their house, weeping all the while.

Yesterday he rather astutely helped my mother and sister install a towel rack.

My mother jokes that these courses are responsible for holding my parents' marriage together since my father retired.

Like other marsupials, a koala mother carries her baby in a pouch until it is large enough to ride on her back or belly.

The do-shi-rak my mother typically packed for me contained bulkogi.

If necessity is the mother of invention, trial and error is the father.

The director of campus ministry called the students home to offer sympathies for the deceased mother who had been battling.

Its mother can distinguish it from hundreds of others by scent.

My mother might have done it in healthier days, but now she's.

My mother knew beauty, but not how to surround herself sufficiently with it.

Zookeepers enlisted her when the tigers' mother didn't produce enough milk.

Like the mother chimpanzees, the female gorillas continued to groom the infants after death, even as they became unrecognizable.

Charlie's mother was too sick to nurse him, and workers struggled to keep.

What was new was the idea that both mother and child could survive the ordeal.

Eventually the mother came back, but it was too late.

Ask kids what they think the mother does once the egg is laid.

Main Entry:	female
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	woman
Synonyms:	Miss/Mrs./Ms., daughter, femme, gal, gentlewoman, girl, grandmother, lady, madam, matron, mother, she, sister
Antonyms:	male, man

Main Entry:	fountainhead
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	principal source; person who originates
Synonyms:	administrator, architect, author, builder, creator, father, fount, fountain, generator, initiator, leader, maker, mother, originator, spring, wellspring

Main Entry:	nurse
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	care for, tend
Synonyms:	advance, aid, attend, baby-sit, cherish, cradle, cultivate, encourage, father, feed, forward, foster, further, harbor, humor, immunize, indulge, inoculate, irradiate, keep alive, keep an eye on, keep tabs on, look after, medicate, minister to, mother, nourish, nurture, pamper, preserve, promote, see to, serve, sit, succor, support, take care of, take charge of, treat, vaccinate, wait on, watch out for, watch over
Antonyms:	ignore, neglect

Main Entry:	originator
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	creator
Synonyms:	architect, author, begetter, designer, discoverer, father, founder, initiator, innovator, inventor, maker, mastermind, mother, pioneer, producer

Main Entry:	parent
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	person, source of product
Synonyms:	ancestor, architect, author, begetter, cause, center, creator, father, folks, forerunner, fountainhead, guardian, mother, origin, originator, procreator, progenitor, prototype, root, source, wellspring
Antonyms:	child

Main Entry:	procreate
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	reproduce
Synonyms:	beget, breed, conceive, create, engender, father, generate, get, give birth to, hatch, impregnate, make, mother, multiply, originate, parent, produce, progenerate, proliferate, propagate, sire, spawn
Antonyms:	kill

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