mother

verb

Pronunciation: /ˈmʌð.ə/ / /ˈmʌðɚ/ / /ˈmɐð.ə/

Etymology: See mother.

One's mother.
One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Maiden and representing a woman older than a girlish Maiden but younger than an aged Crone.
“...different stages of life as represented by our Lady as Maiden, Mother, and Crone, as well as our Lord as Master, Father, and Sage.”
“The Lady is often thought of as having three aspects: Maiden, Mother, and Crone.”

Etymology: See mother.

A title given to a nun or a priestess.
“Mother Teresa Gertrude O’Sullivan, then Provincial, did not give higher education for Loreto nuns the same priority as had Mothers Gonzaga and Stanislaus.”
A title given to the personification of a force of nature or abstract concept, such as Mother Nature, Mother Russia, or Mother Earth.

Etymology: From Middle English modren, from the noun (see above).

To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.)
“Q's sister, Debbie, had mothered two kids by the time she was twenty, with neither of the fathers in sight.”
“Zilpah, Leah's maid, mothered two sons for Jacob, Gad and Asher. Leah became pregnant once more and had two more sons, Issachar, and Zebulun, and a daughter, Dinah, thus Leah had seven children for Jacob.”
To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
“She had seen fewer years than any of us, but she was of such superb Evehood and simplicity that she mothered us from the beginning.”
To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”).
“mothered oil, mothered vinegar, mothered wine”
To develop mother.
“Iron rusted, paper cracked, cream soured and vinegar mothered.”
“Your lamp was always polished, wick trimmed, waiting; yet the bridegroom somehow never came. Summer dust settled in the vineyard. Grapes were harvested; your parents crushed and pressed them, but the wine mothered.”