Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The state of being a mother.
- n. The qualities of a mother.
- n. Mothers considered as a group.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being a mother.
- n. A clan constituted by kinship through the mother.
Wiktionary
- n. The state of being a mother.
- n. Mothers, considered as a group.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of being a mother; the character or office of a mother.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother
Etymologies
- Middle English/mother + -hood This definition is lacking an etymology or has an incomplete etymology. You can help Wiktionary by giving it a proper etymology. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“She is entirely specialized for motherhood; but the thinking, and the determination of the conditions of her motherhood, are in the hands of other females, also highly specialized, and certainly the least selfish of living things -- _yet themselves sterile, incapable of motherhood_.”
“And the true story of motherhood is that it is hard, very hard, sometimes almost too hard.”
“Luckily for me, so much of your writing about motherhood is simply writing about womanhood, personhood, through your experience of them as a mother.”
“As a husband and father, I can say the value of motherhood is priceless, but who will pay my wife for all the work she does as the mother of my children?”
“Your comment that so much of motherhood is about sadness rang true for me.”
“When modern American women make the deliberate choice not to have children they are still called upon to defend that choice, in a culture where motherhood is still regarded as the natural evolution of a womans life.”
“A gift to commemorate motherhood is sweet, though.”
“To do this means that they have to be willing to speak of what has made them unhappy about motherhood, what they've given up or had to sacrifice in the name of motherhood.”
The Huffington Post: Mia Redrick: What New Mothers Need to Know About Motherhood
“I would like to see the conversation of guilt and shame in motherhood transformed to something different.”
“Right now, what I hate most about motherhood is the inability to care for myself.”
10 Things I Hate About Motherhood (And One That I Love) - Her Bad Mother
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Movies or TV shows where the titles are also common words, generally one-word titles.
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LIBE - grounds for discrimination
sex, nationality, racial origin, origin of nationa..., color, mother tongue, disability, medical condition, religious or ideo..., political or othe..., family status, motherhood and 21 more...
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Hoods
Inspired by comments over on muffinhood.
muffinhood, Robin Hood, maidenhood, knighthood, neighborhood, thiefhood, monkshood, childhood, manhood, little red riding..., falsehood, fatherhood and 71 more...
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-hood
quality; character; state; condition; whole group of
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Diversified Obsessions
calendars, running, music, men, friends, motherhood, art, food, solitude, connection, drama, humor and 117 more...
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