as in mother
a female human parent
be sure to tell your mom and dad that you'll be home late for supper
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Recent Examples of mom
Growing up, my mom used to tell me how, back in the 1950s and early '60s, her friends would find any excuse to hear my grandmother tell stories.
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James Dinardo, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
My mom has traveled throughout the world for nearly 42 years and prides herself on never checking a bag.
—Rylee Johnston, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2025
After seeing images of the vandalism on her social media feeds, Kimiko Carpenter, a West L.A. mom and hospice volunteer, stopped at Anawalt Lumber to buy $50 worth of rags, gloves, scraping brushes and canisters of graffiti remover.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025
The voice cast is led by Cristin Milioti as the mom and Simu Liu as the dad.
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 12 June 2025
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James Dinardo, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
My mom has traveled throughout the world for nearly 42 years and prides herself on never checking a bag.
—Rylee Johnston, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2025
After seeing images of the vandalism on her social media feeds, Kimiko Carpenter, a West L.A. mom and hospice volunteer, stopped at Anawalt Lumber to buy $50 worth of rags, gloves, scraping brushes and canisters of graffiti remover.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025
The voice cast is led by Cristin Milioti as the mom and Simu Liu as the dad.
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 12 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mom
Noun
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The 69-year-old hails from an ethnically mixed family – his father is Azeri and his mother is Kurdish.—
Nadeen Ebrahim,
CNN,
6 July 2024
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And if your mother doesn't feel comfortable setting her own boundary, offer to be her excuse.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Washington Post,
6 July 2024
Noun
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In between Groff’s legs, Reeves pretending to look shocked, then threw up his best rock-and-roll hands, thrilled to be betwixt the legs of a manic gay man singing jazz standards as a long-dead playboy with significant mommy issues.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
9 June 2025
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Lies, murder, and major mommy issues — just another day in the fictional town of Wellsbury, Mass.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
6 June 2025
Noun
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What happens next is a woman in the very front looks all the long way back to my mama and says: Your turn.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2025
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But instead of meddlesome mamas making matches, the dating game now more closely resembles the stock market, with daters’ valuations charting up and down.—
Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
15 June 2025
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“Mom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mom. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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