Word "MOTHER" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
make (offspring) by reproduction
Synonyms:
beget, bring forth, engender, father, generate, get, sire

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
Synonyms:
female parent
Examples:
the mother of three children

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
care for like a mother
Synonyms:
fuss, overprotect

Crossword Clues for MOTHER

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Clue Source Date
Female parent (6) Mirror Classic 11 Aug 2025
Maternal parent The Times Concise 21 Jul 2025
Old source of nursery rhymes and fairy-tales (6,5)
Sibling not right to worry (6)
Hilary Swank thriller I Am ___
Dam on motorway is something different (6)
Annual test facing woman's parent (6)
Doctor with the redhead who has given birth (6)
One thing to be when you pour the tea (6)
Mom, formally
"How I Met Your ___"
Loving maternal figure who might be called in different ways such as 33a, 49a, 59a, 7d, 29d, and 43d
How I Met Your _, amusing US show with a disappointing conclusion (6)
Freudian song title used by Lennon, Pink Floyd, The Police (6)
She may have to bring up the issue (6)
In memo there was mention of she who pours the tea (6)
- -of-pearl, iridescent substance in box D (6)
Our star's movie: - And Child
One couldn't be without her (6)
Gives her all to her Tom (6)
____ wit, common sense or ability to cope with daily things (6)
Chronicles Ted Mosby's search for Ms. Right (How I Met Your ______)
Feminine parent Newsday 20 Jan 2025
Medical officer getting the right parent
Sarah Palin, to Bristol
She has children ___ 1000 not the same! (6)
Insect queen
She wants a thousand different (6)
She may have to raise the issue (6)
Relationship of Commonwealth 10.000m winner Liz McColgan to 500m runner Eilish McColgan (6)
1000 different children she has (6)
_ Teresa
Morticia Addams, for one TV 06 Oct 2024
Doctor article by redhead parent
Male brought up by a female member of the family (6)
Female parent Mirror Classic 29 Jul 2024
"_ Night" 1961 Vonnegut novel (6)
One honored in May Commuter 06 Jul 2024
Tom turns to her, naturally! (6)
Loving maternal figure who might be called in different ways such as 33a, 49a, 59a, 7d, 29d, and 43d
How she spoils her Tom!
See 19 Down The Guardian Cryptic 18 Apr 2024
Parent Mirror Tea Time 04 Apr 2024
Male different from female parent
One of relative concern in thermometer manufacture (6)
Doctor ___ the right sort of woman (6)
Parent getting insect with hesitation
Beyonce, to Blue Ivy Eugene Sheffer 28 Feb 2024
'The ___', 1930 book by Sholem Asch (6)
"Old ___ Hubbard ..."
"Whistler's ___" (Painting by James McNeill Whistler) (6)
Female parent The Times Concise 02 Jan 2024
15 22 - and its lead character (6,5)
15 22 - and its lead character The Guardian Weekend 23 Dec 2023
____ hen, one who clucks and fusses over others (6)
Behave protectively towards different male leads
Meghan's opening Spare for old lady The Guardian Cryptic 15 Nov 2023
"___ Knows Best," song performed by the villainous Gothel in Disney's "Tangled"
Ma The Telegraph Quick 05 Nov 2023
See 23 The Guardian Cryptic 20 Oct 2023
With 37-Across, native language New York Times 12 Jun 2023
May honoree Thomas Joseph 11 May 2023
Insect queen and what one is to drones? The Times Cryptic 05 Dec 2022
Nature personified Newsday 02 Sep 2022
May honoree LA Times Daily 31 Jul 2022
Delivery person? Wall Street Journal 26 Feb 2022
Malice, more formally New York Times 26 Dec 2021
___ Ginger, character who hides the Polichinelles under her skirt in 11a
She gives birth Irish Times Simplex 07 Jul 2021
More anxious about the short bear
Parent The Telegraph Quick 01 Jan 2021
Nobel laureate ___ Teresa
May honoree Newsday 29 Sep 2020
Mary Wollstonecraft, to Mary Shelley The Washington Post Sunday 16 Aug 2020
Male, different relative
Female parent The Telegraph Quick 03 Apr 2020
Labor leader? Wall Street Journal 11 Feb 2020
One expecting Bottom here in play
Girl in club's second tango in the dress
Be overprotective and conceal everything but the face
May honoree New York Times 06 Feb 2019
22 I'm not sure is native
May honoree
Minute remaining, matron! The Telegraph Toughie 23 Nov 2018
. Protect man and more
Marge, to Bart USA Today 21 Aug 2018
Sort of test taken by that female who has given birth? The Telegraph Cryptic 08 Jun 2018
Person whose inner child has been released? New York Times 05 Jun 2018
Title for nature
She gives birth Irish Times Simplex 19 Apr 2018
One expecting the right to wear second medal
Marge, to Bart
Person whose inner child has been released?
Female relative — male different
Nature personified Newsday 19 Oct 2017
Female parent The Times Concise 22 Aug 2017
Delivery person? Wall Street Journal 17 Aug 2017
Dam, second in that place, but not the last
The female caregiver
Maternal relates to...?
Hood lead-in New York Times 18 Dec 2016
She's honored in May Newsday 06 Sep 2016
Word before 'ship' or 'tongue' The Washington Post 03 Aug 2016
Bloke is gutted after female stops saying she's pregnant
Again docked across the dam The Telegraph Cryptic 20 Feb 2016
Dam in need of test -- oh dear, it's been regularly neglected The Telegraph Toughie 12 Feb 2016
Thermo-elastic type of nature Irish Times Crosaire 02 Feb 2016
Hood lead-in
She's very many, not all the same
X contributor
Maternal Pink Floyd song off "The Wall"
One may be superior
Title for Nature
Title for Nature
With 51-Across, "The poor people are very great people. They can teach us so many beautiful things." (1979)
Care for in a nurturing manner, and what can precede the last words of 20-, 27-, 44-, and 52-Across
Nature's title
May honoree
Postpartum depression sufferer
Word that can precede the starts of this puzzle's nine longest answers
More of the quote
More of the quote
Child bearer
Child bearer
Earth __
Coral, to Nemo
Word with earth or lode
May honoree
"Psycho" figure
One who no's best?
See 16-Across
Superior leader
Teresa or Nature
May honoree
Teresa, e.g.
Hood or lode leader
She might be superior
Sarah, to Isaac
Goose or Hubbard
Machree of songdom
V.I.P. in May
Parent of a sort, with 38 Across
Word with goose or hood
___ country.
___ Carey's chickens.
Hubbard.
Protect.
___ Shipton.
"Life with ___."
Heroine of May 13.
Her day is May 10.
Leading lady of May 8th.
Care for carefully.
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