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mothers

NOUN

founder, inventor

Synonyms

WEAK

administrator architect author builder creator dean elder encourager generator initiator introducer leader maker matriarch motor mover organizer originator patriarch patron prime mover promoter promulgator publisher sire sponsor supporter

NOUN

female person who has borne children

Synonyms

STRONGEST

mom parent

STRONG

ancestor creator mommy origin predecessor progenitor source

WEAK

child-bearer forebearer procreator

Antonyms

STRONG

descendant effect end result

WEAK

father

Example Sentences

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Thousands of the mothers were pressured into giving up babies for adoption because they were unmarried.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2026

To investigate these relationships, Gair, Gibb, and collaborator Leslie A. Brick from the University of New Mexico followed 242 children and their mothers for two years.

From Science Daily • Jun. 17, 2026

"This is not a life," one of the relocated mothers grumbled.

From Barron's • Jun. 17, 2026

The care that mothers supplied still had to be done, and more of it fell to fathers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 17, 2026

It didn’t even bother me that most of the mothers paid us in homemade candy.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm