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Mater

//ˈmeɪtə// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Mother. British, archaic, humorous, slang

    "Their maters are all pals of my mater’s, and I don’t want to get them into trouble for aiding and abetting my little show, if you understand what I mean."

  2. 2
    Someone or something that mates.
  3. 3
    Alternative form of 'mater (“tomato”). alt-of, alternative

    ""A mater sandwich would be better." Trixie said, "but I'll take it if that's all you got." As if we were woefully deprived of food. So Trixie had a tomato sandwich for lunch, carefully prepared by Lillian but for which she received no thanks."

  4. 4
    an informal use of the Latin word for mother; sometimes used by British schoolboys or used facetiously wordnet
  5. 5
    A meninx; the dura mater, arachnoid mater, or pia mater of the brain.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin māter (“mother”), partly via Late Middle English matere. Doublet of mata and mother. Ancestor of matrix.

Etymology 2

From mate + -er.

Etymology 3

See 'mater.

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