noun. Mother.

noun. Mother: in certain special uses. See alma mater, and phrases below.

noun. In anatomy, one of two membranes or meninges of the brain, outer and inner, separated by the arachnoid, and distinguished as dura mater, or dura, and pia mater, or pia: so called from some idea that they produce the brain.—

noun. The large metallic disk which forms the foundation of an astrolabe, and carries at its circumference the graduation upon which the indications of the alidade or index are read.

noun. A Middle English form of matter.

noun. See alma mater, dura mater, and pia mater.

noun. an informal use of the Latin word for mother; sometimes used by British schoolboys or used facetiously

"WORD CORRECT PRONUNCIATION alma mater _alma mater_ apparatus _apparatus_ apricot _apricot_ attaché _attasha'_ audacious _audashus_ ballet _bal'la_ blasé _blaza'_ blatant _blatant_ chasten _chasen_"

mater aceti  mater familias  

female parent  mother  

Attar  Crater  Creator  Decatur  Equator  

Pater  Regina  aliquando  argento  causa  

alma mater  dura mater  pia mater