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The kinship relation between an offspring and the mother
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motherhood
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Motherhood \Moth"er*hood\, n. The state of being a mother; the character or office of a mother.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Motherhood is the state of being a mother . Motherhood may also refer to: Motherhood (1917 film) , a lost drama film Motherhood (2009 film) , an independent comedy-drama film "Motherhood" (Xena episode) , episode of the television series Xena: Warrior Princess ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ It is not easy trying to combine motherhood and a job. ▪ She's enjoying motherhood . ▪ teenage motherhood ▪ Women weren't expected to work in those days. The accepted pattern was marriage and motherhood . EXAMPLES FROM ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being a mother. 2 Mothers, considered as a group.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother [syn: maternity ]
Usage examples of motherhood.
All mothers-to-be daydream about life with their babies, but few envision the consuming nature of full-time motherhood.
Eton will be education as for fatherhood, yet the ideal of education as for motherhood may yet triumph wherever girls are taught within even a few years to come.
There can be no compromise, nothing but a fight to the finish, between the principle of endowing motherhood by making fatherhood less responsible, and the principle here fought for, of endowing motherhood by making fatherhood more responsible.
By nothing else will this arrest be so accelerated as by those very measures for making fatherhood more responsible for the care of motherhood, which are here advocated.
It is completely forgotten that, just as parenthood, both fatherhood and motherhood, demands more of the individual as we rise in the scale of animal evolution, so, within our own species, the same holds good.
It is the sign of motherhood, as the identicalness of your fellows is the sign of dangerous inbreeding.
Many women find deep satisfaction in the nurturing role of motherhood.
During the first months of motherhood, breast feeding was a mutually nurturing experience for Maggie and her baby.
New motherhood is a time of life when many women report feeling an intense personal need for the nurturing power of their own mother.
Jewel had been a nymph and retained many of her nymphal qualities despite the burden of experience that marriage and motherhood had imposed on her.
I hope the day will come when she, so worthy of it, will taste the sweet joys of wifehood and motherhood.
Their presence, and the impending motherhood condition of three ,of them, had been a source of some confusion to Jean-Pierre de la Chevaux, who had to be assured by Father Jacques dePresseps that they were -not, as he assumed, pregnant nuns.
She had seen everything made in that period and was content to spend the mellowing years of her motherhood in front of the TV set, viewing the same movies again and again.
It was comforting to see that she looked like an ordinary mortalround and misproportioned, her torso softened by motherhood.
As we rounded the shoulder of the summit, Kathleen informed me that she had to go to the bathroom, and I was suddenly faced with the reality of Alaskan motherhood.