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UK
/mˈʌðəhˌʊd/
]
[ US /ˈməðɝˌhʊd/ ]
[ US /ˈməðɝˌhʊd/ ]
NOUN
- the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother
How To Use motherhood In A Sentence
- A touching painting was the one depicting motherhood made in canvas by K. Kumaran.
- She said: 'I felt very safe in my little bubble of motherhood and domesticity. The Sun
- Your first book was actually a theological exploration of the meaning of motherhood.
- On balance, her ample stomach seems to suggest more impending motherhood than lax calorie control. Times, Sunday Times
- The hen with her brood is an accepted model of motherhood in this respect. Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution
- At the moment a large proportion of motherhood seems to be spent worrying about the fact that Tommy still can't manage to get up into a sitting position on his own.
- The Question Time audience claps for anything that's motherhood and apple-pie as long as it's delivered punchily. Why Jenny Tonge Should be Abolished
- But the Yates case revealed a deep gender divide about the isolation and stress of family and motherhood in a society that extols self-sufficiency as its premiere human value.
- And this in the land of motherhood and apple pie. Times, Sunday Times
- Yet at the same time, especially since the baby boomers came on the scene, many American women have treated the experience of motherhood as an exercise in self-expression - indeed, they do so more fervently than the kibbutzniks.