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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mater
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
alma mater
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb's alma mater
▪ Mr. Inocencio regularly returns to his alma mater to encourage students to pursue their dreams.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mater

Mater \Ma"ter\, n. [L., mother. See Mother.] See Alma mater, Dura mater, and Pia mater.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
mater

Etymology 1 n. (context British slang now chiefly archaic or humorous English) mother. Etymology 2

n. (context biology English) Someone or something that mates.

WordNet
mater

n. informal terms for a mother [syn: ma, mama, mamma, mom, momma, mommy, mammy, mum, mummy]

Wikipedia
Mater

Mater is a formal Latin term for mother and may refer to:

Mater (Cars)

Tow Mater, or simply Mater, is a character in Cars and its sequels, as well as Cars Toons. He is voiced by Larry the Cable Guy and inspired by a 1951 International Harvester tow truck. Portrayed as Lightning McQueen's best friend and sidekick, he had a breakout role in Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales and in other media related to Cars.

Usage examples of "mater".

Thus, one layer of the arachnoid envelopes the brain and spinal cord, and the other lines the dura mater.

Before long, Materia was playing for local ceilidhs and traveling vaudeville troupes.

On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Materia climbed out her window and left the Old Country forever.

James and Materia moved into their big two-story white frame house, with attic, a month later.

The Atlantic was always in sight and this was something James and Materia both came to depend on.

And if you were like Materia, you might look out, and out, and out, until what there was of sun had subsided.

In time, Materia wore a path from the two-story white house, along the creek, across the Shore Road, to the cliff.

Rather than make Materia feel badly about it, James put it in the otherwise empty attic.

At the eleventh hour, in her ninth month, Materia began looking forward to her baby.

Luvovitz looked after Materia and the new baby for the first two weeks.

All Materia wanted to do was get pregnant again so God could send her a son.

Imagine his surprise when Materia left the house a few evenings later wearing her good dress, her hair combed and done up under her hat.

But Materia still had the vaudeville and the picture shows and she was happy as long as she could play.

But the moment flees before Materia can get hold of it, a message telegraphed weakly over a sagging distance of time and space, every second word missing.

To her own surprise, Materia began to look forward to this child, not even caring if it was a boy.