I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a proud mother/father/parent
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Mark is the proud father of a three-week-old baby boy.
birth mother
earth mother
mother country
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The bond between the mother country and her former colonies grew stronger.
Mother Earth
mother lode
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The Sharper Image catalog is a mother lode of men’s gadgets and toys.
Mother Nature
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How could Mother Nature have dealt such a savage blow?
Mother of God
mother ship
Mother Superior
mother tongue
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children for whom English is not their mother tongue
mother's boy
Mother's Day
Mothering Sunday
mother/native tongue (= the language you learn as a child )
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She felt more comfortable talking in her native tongue.
Queen Mother
Reverend Mother
sb is old enough to be sb’s mother/father (= used when you think that someone is much too old to be having a relationship with another person )
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Why would she want to go out with someone who was old enough to be her father?
surrogate mother
working mother
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a working mother
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
biological parent/father/mother etc
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Adopted children and their biological parents may suffer stress long after the adoption. 4.
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It's now estimated that by 2010, children in stepfamilies will actually outnumber those living with two biological parents.
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Most of the debate was really about an alleged universality of the nuclear family of married biological parents and their legitimate children.
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My biological father is diagnosed as paranoid / schizophrenic.
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Or now, when they swear their biological father forced them to make the whole story up?
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Steven Lowe, Liverpool Who would be the biological parents of a human clone, and what legal ramifications would this have?
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The hearing would decide whether the state should terminate the rights of the biological parents and put the child up for adoption.
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The two candidates for the role of biological father were both Black Panthers.
expectant mother/father
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Everyone treats me with the temerity usually afforded to expectant fathers and potential Messiahs.
father/mother/authority figure
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A young girl needs a strong mother figure .
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And he registers genuine hurt at the fact that Buzzy regards Buck as more of a father figure than himself.
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As we get older, we may be abused by other authority figures - teachers, doctors, bosses.
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Disrespect the authority figure out there on the field and then wonder why the kids do it in their classrooms.
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Eventually Daley made the remarkable transition from political boss to father figure .
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He spoke seldom, but he was never impatient with her, always kind, a companionable father figure .
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It would seem that we are far more likely to obey unquestioningly when the authority figure is actually present.
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One wonders what is the unspoken view of the other authority figures involved in setting this up?
foster mother/father/parents
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By then, the girl had been put into the temporary care of foster parents by Wirral Council.
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His foster parents say they're giving him a break from events back home.
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News of the deal caused outrage in Britain, and Flintshire social services placed the girls with foster parents.
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On that occasion, they returned to Berkeley with a coachload of other would-be foster parents empty-handed.
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Richard had been passed from one set of foster parents to another until he was ten.
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The children went into voluntary care in June 1991 and were placed together with foster parents.
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The girl, who was with foster parents, wanted her family re-united.
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The sisters were separated, Lore working as a maid and the others going to foster parents.
hit the mother lode
lone mother/father/parent etc
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More than half of lone parents with two or more children had incomes below their absolute poverty level at £227 a week.
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One Parent Benefit is paid to 75% of lone parents.
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Sheila is a lone parent with two children, aged 13 and 15.
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Two thirds of lone parent families depend mainly on social security benefits, compared with one in eight two parent families.
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We can treat lone parents as poor people, needing means-tested social assistance of some sort - as we do now.
necessity is the mother of invention
noncustodial parent/father/mother
the Michael Jacksons/Mother Teresas/Microsofts etc of this world
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Mother just loved crossword puzzles.
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a mother hen and her chicks
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a real mother of a car
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As a single mother , Linda relies on state benefits which are nowhere near enough.
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Like most mothers, I always feel anxious when my children come home late.
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My mother and father are both teachers.
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My mother says I have to be home by 9 o'clock.
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The 29-year-old mother of two was attacked while walking her dog in woods near her home.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Brenda just tries to mother everyone.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A new kind of mothering exists between these two extremes, at the locus of self.
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But why discuss mothering alone in a book about redefining motherhood?
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Fair enough-invention had been successfully mothered again by NECessity.
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In such societies girls learn mothering from their earliest years, usually by mothering their brothers and sisters.
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She mothered all of them in a way that Jennie could not now she was becoming more erratic.