{
    "term": "mother",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a female parent of a child or animal; a person who is acting as a mother to a child",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I want to buy a present for my mother and father."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the relationship between mother and baby"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's the mother of twins."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a mother of three *(= with three children)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **young/new/single mother**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an **expectant ***(= pregnant)* **mother**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Jenny is a **stay-at-home mother** of three."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Affordable childcare is critical for **working mothers**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was a wonderful mother to both her natural and adopted children."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the mother chimpanzee caring for her young"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The new candidate was raised by a single mother in South London."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She acted as a surrogate mother to the brothers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her distraught mother had spent all night waiting by the phone."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She felt proud that she had raised four children as a lone mother."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She inherited the urge to travel from her mother."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The boys were like their father, but Louise took after her mother."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The court decided she was an unfit mother."
                },
                {
                    "text": "caring for his sick mother"
                },
                {
                    "text": "his beloved mother"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the proud mother of the bride"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This is my mother, Joan."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Family and relationships", "Life stages"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["lone", "single", "unmarried"],
                "verb + mother": ["resemble", "take after", "inherit something from"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the title of a woman who is head of a convent (= a community of nuns)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "when you were very young",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I learnt these songs at my mother's knee."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to emphasize that something is very large, unpleasant, important, etc.",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I got stuck in the mother of all traffic jams."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a difficult new problem forces people to think of a solution to it",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "very much older than somebody (especially used to suggest that a romantic or sexual relationship between the two people is not appropriate)",
            "labels": "(disapproving)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmʌðə(r)/",
                "audio": "mo/mother/mother__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmʌðər/",
                "audio": "mo/mother/mother__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "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."
}