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mother

mother [noun] (PARENT)
US /ˈmʌð.ɚ/ 
UK /ˈmʌð.ər/ 
Example: 

She’s an English teacher and a mother of two children.

a female parent of a child or animal

Persian equivalent: 
Example: 

She’s an English teacher and a mother of two children.

Oxford Essential Dictionary

mother

 noun
a woman who has a child:
My mother is a doctor.
Look at mum and mummy.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

mother

I. mother1 S1 W1 /ˈmʌðə $ -ər/ BrE AmE noun [countable]
[Word Family: noun: mother, motherhood, mothering; adjective: motherly, motherless; verb: mother]
[Language: Old English; Origin: modor]
1. a female parent of a child or animal:
His mother and father are both doctors.
mother of two/three etc (=mother of two/three etc children)
Janet is a full-time teacher and a mother of two.
the relationship between mother and child
Goodnight, Mother.
Mother said they’d met at university.
If food is scarce, the mother will feed the smaller, weaker chicks.
mother cat/bird/hen etc (=an animal that is a mother)
2. be (like) a mother to somebody to care for someone as if you were their mother:
She’s like a mother to them. If they need anything she always helps out.
3. like a mother hen if someone behaves like a mother hen, they try to protect their children too much and worry about them all the time
4. learn/be taught something at your mother’s knee to learn something when you are a very young child:
the prayers which he had been taught at his mother’s knee
5. the mother of something
a) the origin or cause of something:
Westminster is known as ‘the mother of parliaments’.
Necessity is the mother of invention (=people have good ideas when the situation makes it necessary).
b) informal a very severe or extreme type of something, usually something bad:
I woke up with the mother of all hangovers.
6. spoken especially American English something very large and usually very good:
a real mother of a car
7. American English taboo spoken ↑motherfucker
8. Mother
used to address the woman who is in charge of a ↑convent
• • •
THESAURUS
mother a female parent: My mother and father are both teachers.
mum British English informal, mom American English informal used when talking to your father, or about someone's father: My mum and dad won’t mind if you want to stay the night. | Mom, where’s my sweater?
mummy British English, mommy American English a name for mother, which is used especially by young children or when you are talking to young children: Where’s Mummy, Abbie?
ma American English old-fashioned used when talking to your mother, or about someone's mother: Ma stirred the soup on the stove.
mama old-fashioned used when talking to your mother, or about someone's mother: Mama seldom disagreed with Papa.
stepmother (also stepmum British English informal, stepmom American English informal) a woman who is married to your father, who is not your mother but often acts as your parent: the wicked stepmother in fairy stories
II. mother2 BrE AmE verb [transitive]
[Word Family: noun: mother, motherhood, mothering; adjective: motherly, motherless; verb: mother]
to look after and protect someone as if you were their mother, especially by being too kind and doing everything for them:
I don’t like being mothered!

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

mother

mother [mother mothers mothered mothering] noun, verb   [ˈmʌðə(r)]    [ˈmʌðər] 

 

noun
1. a female parent of a child or animal; a person who is acting as a mother to a child
I want to buy a present for my mother and father.
the relationship between mother and baby
She's the mother of twins.
a mother of three (= with three children)
an expectant (= pregnant) mother
• She was a wonderful mother to both her natural and adopted children.

• the mother chimpanzee caring for her young

2. the title of a woman who is head of a convent (= a community of nuns )
see also  Mother Superior 
more at necessity is the mother of invention at  necessity, old enough to be sb's father/mother at  old  
Word Origin:
Old English mōdor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch moeder and German Mutter, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin mater and Greek mētēr.  
Thesaurus:
mother noun C
She's the proud mother of twins.
parentstepmotherguardian|BrE, informal, especially spoken mummummy|AmE, informal, especially spoken mommommy|especially AmE, informal folks
a good/bad mother/parent/mum/mom
sb's new mother/parent/stepmother/mum/mom
become a/sb's mother/parent/stepmother/guardian/mum/mom
Mother or mum? In spoken English mum/mom is much more frequent. It can sound formal to say my mother.  
Example Bank:
Her distraught mother had spent all night waiting by the phone.
She felt proud that she had raised four children as a lone mother.
She inherited the urge to travel from her mother.
The boys were like their father, but Louise took after her mother.
The court decided she was an unfit mother.
The two boys were like their father in character, but Louise took after her mother.
caring for his sick mother
his beloved mother
the proud mother of the bride
She's the mother of twins.
This is my mother, Joan.
• an expectant mother

Idioms: at your mother's knee  mother of something 

 

verb ~ sb/sth
to care for sb/sth because you are their mother, or as if you were their mother
• He was a disturbed child who needed mothering.

• Stop mothering me!

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition
 

mother / ˈmʌð.ə r /   / -ɚ / noun [ C ] (PARENT)

A1 a female parent:

My mother was 21 when she got married.

All the mothers and fathers had been invited to the end-of-term concert.

The little kittens and their mother were all curled up asleep in the same basket.

[ as form of address ] formal or old-fashioned May I borrow your car, Mother?

 

mother / ˈmʌð.ə r /   / -ɚ / noun [ C ] ( also Mother ) (RELIGIOUS WOMAN)

the title of a woman who is in charge of, or who has a high rank within, a convent (= house of religious women) :

Mother Theresa

a mother superior

[ as form of address ] Good morning, Mother.

 

mother / ˈmʌð.ə r /   / -ɚ / noun [ C ] offensive mainly US (SLANG)

→  motherfucker

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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

mother

/mʌðə(r)/
(mothers, mothering, mothered)

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.

1.
Your mother is the woman who gave birth to you. You can also call someone your mother if she brings you up as if she was this woman.
She sat on the edge of her mother’s bed...
She’s an English teacher and a mother of two children...
I’m here, Mother.
N-FAMILY

2.
If a woman mothers a child, she looks after it and brings it up, usually because she is its mother.
Colleen had dreamed of mothering a large family.
VERB: V n
moth‧er‧ing
The reality of mothering is frequently very different from the romantic ideal.
N-UNCOUNT

3.
If you mother someone, you treat them with great care and affection, as if they were a small child.
Stop mothering me.
VERB: V n

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary: 

1moth·er /ˈmʌðɚ/ noun, pl -ers
1 [count] : a female parent
• She became a mother when she was in her 20s.
• She's the mother of three small children.
• She has been like a mother to me.
• Our dog is the mother of all those puppies.
• She has always been close to her mother.
• an expectant mother [=a woman who is pregnant]
• She is a single mother. [=a mother who does not have a husband or partner]
- see also birth mother, grandmother, queen mother, stepmother, surrogate mother
2 [count] : a woman who is thought of as being like a mother
• She was a mother to me after my own mother died.
- see also den mother
3 a [count] : a woman who invents or begins something - usually singular
• She is regarded as the mother of an entire industry.
• the mother of an important social movement
b [singular] : a cause or origin of something
• Some say that scandal is the mother of reform.
4 [count] : mother superior
- used especially as a title or as a form of address
Mother Teresa
• Thank you, Mother.
5 [singular] informal
- used to say that something is larger, better, worse, etc., than all other things of the same kind
• It has been described as the mother of all construction projects. [=an extremely large construction project]
6 [count] US offensive : motherfucker
• That guy is one mean mother.
learn (something) at your mother's knee
- see 1knee
necessity is the mother of invention
- used to say that new ways to do things are found or created when there is a strong and special need for them;
- moth·er·hood /ˈmʌðɚˌhʊd/ noun [noncount]
• She is looking forward to marriage and motherhood.
- moth·er·less /ˈmʌðɚləs/ adj
• Her death left three motherless children.
• a motherless calf

grandparent

grandparent [noun]
US /ˈɡræn.per.ənt/ 
UK /ˈɡræn.peə.rənt/ 
Example: 

My granparents live in London.

one of the parents of your mother or father:

Persian equivalent: 
Example: 

My granparents live in London.

Oxford Essential Dictionary

grandparent

 noun
the mother or father of your mother or father

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

grandparent

grandparent /ˈɡrænˌpeərənt $ -ˌper-/ BrE AmE noun [countable usually plural]
one of the parents of your mother or father:
My grandparents live in Sussex.

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

grandparent

grand·par·ent [grandparent grandparents]   [ˈɡrænpeərənt]    [ˈɡrænperənt]  noun usually plural
the father or mother of your father or mother
The children are staying with their grandparents.  
Example Bank:
• I've sent photos of the children to both sets of grandparents.

• a present from his doting grandparents

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

grandparent

grandparent /ˈgrænd.peə.rənt/ US /-per.ənt/
noun [C]
the father or mother of a person's father or mother

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

grandparent

/grænpeərənt/
(grandparents)

Your grandparents are the parents of your father or mother.
Tammy was raised by her grandparents.

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary: 

grandparent

grand·par·ent /ˈgrændˌperənt/ noun, pl -ents [count] : a parent of your father or mother

grandmother

grandmother [noun]
US /ˈɡræn.mʌð.ɚ/ 
UK /ˈɡræn.mʌð.ər/ 
Example: 

My grandmothers are both widows.

the mother of your mother or father

Persian equivalent: 
Example: 

My grandmothers are both widows.

Oxford Essential Dictionary

grandmother

 (also informal) grandma ) noun
the mother of your mother or father

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

grandmother S3 /ˈɡrænˌmʌðə $ -ər/ BrE AmE noun [countable]
the mother of your mother or father
REGISTER
People usually say gran (in British English) or grandma when talking to or about their own grandmother:
▪ My grandma used to make lovely cakes.

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

grandmother

grand·mother [grandmother grandmothers]   [ˈɡrænmʌðə(r)]    [ˈɡrænmʌðər]  noun

the mother of your father or mother

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

grandmother

grandmother /ˈgrænd.mʌð.əʳ/ /ˈgræm-/ US /-ɚ/
noun [C] (INFORMAL grandma or granny or gran)
the mother of a person's father or mother

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

grandmother

 

/grænmʌðə(r)/
(grandmothers)

Your grandmother is the mother of your father or mother.
My grandmothers are both widows.

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary: 

grandmother

grand·moth·er /ˈgrændˌmʌðɚ/ noun, pl -ers [count] : the mother of your father or mother

grandfather

grandfather [noun]
US /ˈɡræn.fɑː.ðɚ/ 
UK /ˈɡræn.fɑː.ðər/ 
Example: 

My grandfather was a farmer.

the father of your father or mother

Persian equivalent: 
Example: 

My grandfather was a farmer.

Oxford Essential Dictionary

grandfather

 (also informal) grandpa ) noun
the father of your mother or father

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

grandfather

grandfather S3 /ˈɡrændˌfɑːðə $ -ər/ BrE AmE noun [countable]
the father of your father or mother
REGISTER
People usually say grandad (especially in British English) or grandpa when talking to or about their own grandfather:
▪ I used to stay at my grandpa’s house.

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

grand·father [grandfather grandfathers]   [ˈɡrænfɑːðə(r)] Click to play   [ˈɡrænfɑːðər] Click to play noun

the father of your father or mother

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

grandfather /ˈgrænd.fɑː.ðəʳ/ US /-ðɚ/
noun [C] (INFORMAL grandpa or grandad)
the father of a person's mother or father

 

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

grandfather

/grændfɑ:ðə(r)/
(grandfathers)

Your grandfather is the father of your father or mother.
His grandfather was a professor.

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary: 

grandfather

grand·fa·ther /ˈgrændˌfɑːðɚ/ noun, pl -thers [count] : the father of your father or mother

granddaughter

granddaughter [noun]
US /ˈɡræn.dɑː.t̬ɚ/ 
UK /ˈɡræn.dɔː.tər/ 

the daughter of one of your children

Persian equivalent: 

Oxford Essential Dictionary

granddaughter

 noun
the daughter of your son or daughter

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

granddaughter

 

granddaughter /ˈɡrænˌdɔːtə $ -ˌdɒːtər/ noun [countable]
  the daughter of your son or daughter

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

granddaughter

 

 

grand·daugh·ter [granddaughter granddaughters]   [ˈɡrændɔːtə(r)]    [ˈɡrændɔːtər]  noun

 

a daughter of your son or daughter

compare  grandson

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

granddaughter

 

granddaughter /ˈgrænd.dɔː.təʳ/ US /-dɑː.ţɚ/
noun [C]
the daughter of a person's son or daughter

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

granddaughter

/grændɔ:tə(r)/
(granddaughters)

Someone’s granddaughter is the daughter of their son or daughter.
...a drawing of my granddaughter Amelia.

N-COUNT: usu with poss
 

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary: 

granddaughter

grand·daugh·ter /ˈgrænˌdɑːtɚ/ noun, pl -ters [count] : a daughter of your son or daughter

grandson

grandson [noun]
US /ˈɡræn.sʌn/ 
UK /ˈɡræn.sʌn/ 

the son of one of your children

Persian equivalent: 

Oxford Essential Dictionary

grandson

 noun
the son of your son or daughter

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

grandson

 

grandson /ˈɡrænsʌn/ noun [countable]
  the son of your son or daughter

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

grandson

 

grand·son [grandson grandsons]   [ˈɡrænsʌn]    [ˈɡrænsʌn]  noun

 

 

a son of your son or daughter

compare  granddaughter

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

grandson

 

grandson /ˈgrænd.sʌn/
noun [C]
the son of a person's son or daughter

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

grandson

/grænsʌn/
(grandsons)

Someone’s grandson is the son of their son or daughter.
My grandson’s birthday was on Tuesday.

N-COUNT: oft with poss

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary: 

grandson

grand·son /ˈgrændˌsʌn/ noun, pl -sons [count] : a son of your son or daughter

grandchildren

grandchildren [noun]

the son or daughter of one of your children

Persian equivalent: 

Oxford Essential Dictionary

grandchild

 noun (plural grandchildren )
the child of your son or daughter

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

grandchild

grandchild /ˈɡræntʃaɪld/ BrE AmE noun (plural grandchildren /-tʃɪldrən/) [countable]
the child of your son or daughter
 

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

grandchild

 

grand·child [grandchild grandchildren]   [ˈɡræntʃaɪld]    [ˈɡræntʃaɪld]  noun (pl. grand·chil·dren)

 

 

a child of your son or daughter

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition
 

grandchild / ˈɡræn.tʃaɪld / noun [ C ] ( plural grandchildren )

A2 the child of a person's son or daughter

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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

grandchild

/græntʃaɪld/
(grandchildren)

Someone’s grandchild is the child of their son or daughter.
Mary loves her grandchildren.

N-COUNT: oft poss N

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary: 

grandchild

grand·child /ˈgrændˌʧajəld/ noun, pl -chil·dren /-ʧɪldrən/ [count] : a child of your son or daughter

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