Mater
[meitә]
Definition
(noun.) an informal use of the Latin word for mother; sometimes used by British schoolboys or used facetiously.
Inputed by Jarvis--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) See Alma mater, Dura mater, and Pia mater.
Checker: Roderick
Definition
n. a mother: one of the two membranes of the brain outer and inner separated by the arachnoid—the dura mater or dura and pia mater or pia.—Mā′ter dolorō′sa the Virgin Mary represented as the sorrowing mother; Māterfamil′ias the mother of a family.
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Examples
- It filled him with almost insane fury, this calm assumption of the Magna Mater, that all was hers, because she had borne it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A Mater Dolorosa, she had borne him, a Magna Mater, she now claimed him again, soul and body, sex, meaning, and all. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He had a horror of the Magna Mater, she was detestable. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She was 'communis mater'--the mother of all Christians. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Editor: Tracy