Meaning & use
mother
A woman in relation to her child or children; a female parent.
See it in a sentence
Her mother taught her how to bake bread when she was young.
The new mother spent every night rocking the baby to sleep.
A note on using this word
Mother also works as a verb meaning to care for someone protectively, as in 'she mothered the injured bird back to health.'
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Another way to use it
2. verb
To care for and protect someone in a nurturing, sometimes overly attentive way.
He wished his older sister would stop mothering him at every family gathering.
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