English Dictionary

mother

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈmʌðə(ɹ)/

動詞

他動詞 自動詞 アルコール由来

(chiefly transitive) To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.) / (transitive) To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.

日本語の意味

女性として子どもを産む、あるいは生み出すこと。 / 母親らしく接し、子どもを育む、慈しむこと。

The lioness will mother three cubs before the end of the year.

その雌ライオンは年内に3頭の子を産むでしょう。

意味（1）

(chiefly transitive) 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.

意味（2）

(transitive) 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.

意味（3）

(transitive) To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”).

mothered oil, mothered vinegar, mothered wine

意味（4）

(intransitive, of an alcohol) To develop mother.

Iron rusted, paper cracked, cream soured and vinegar mothered.

mothers （ present singular third-person ）

mothering （ participle present ）

mothered （ participle past ）

mothered （ past ）