Mom
adj, name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Mother. Canada, South-Africa, US, West-Midlands, colloquial, informal
"To find out what moms really want this year, we turned to the best source possible: our own mothers."
- 2 prefix of a female commoner who marries a royal prince.
- 3 Initialism of middle of the market. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, middle
- 4 Initialism of message-oriented middleware, hardware or software infrastructure supporting sending and receiving of messages between distributed systems. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
- 5 informal terms for a mother wordnet
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- 6 Mother.; used as a term of address for one's wife Canada, South-Africa, US, West-Midlands, broadly, colloquial, informal
"(spoken by the father) I don't share it with mom! Right, mom?"
- 7 Initialism of motive, opportunity, means (“factors to consider in investigating a crime”). abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
- 8 An adult female owner of a pet. informal
- 9 Alternative form of MoM. alt-of, alternative, uncountable
- 1 To care for in a motherly way. Canada, US, informal, transitive
"The shock of my news had worn off, and now she'd want to know where I was, how I was doing, and she'd sniff out that I was with someone. “I just wanted to check in on you.” That was Mom. Totally unashamed about momming me."
- 1 Initialism of month-over-month/month-on-month; compared to the same time period in the previous month. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
- 1 One’s mother. informal
"I wish Mom and Dad didn't argue so much."
- 2 A surname from Khmer.
Antonyms
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More examples"My mom doesn't speak English very well."
Etymology
Clipping of momma.
Proprialisation of mom.
Transliteration of Khmer មុំ (mum, “corner, angle”).
Transliteration of Thai หม่อม (mɔ̀m)
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