mother figure

Noun

Meaning

a woman who evokes the feelings usually reserved for a mother

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

guardian substitute surrogate caretaker big sister foster mother birth mother biological mother good mom good mama great mom adoptive mother maternal person mother of the wife motherlike figure

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Antonyms

father figure

Hypernyms

woman adult female

Examples

Because female children continue to identify to some degree with the mother figure, they are especially likely to retain a close connection to the semiotic. Source: Internet

Behind her sits, a mother figure, stiff and coiffed, casting an ominous shadow. Source: Internet

ADAMS, Mass. — The Mother Town finally has a monument to a woman who was a mother figure to generations of girls and women. Source: Internet

An older woman, Ma McCreary, is part mother figure and part best friend to Libby. Source: Internet

She received commission for the portrait Marie-Antoinette and her Children (1787) in 1785, which portrayed Marie Antoinette as a devout and loving mother figure. Source: Internet

This continued identification with the mother may result in what Kristeva refers to in Black Sun (1989) as melancholia ( depression ), given that female children simultaneously reject and identify with the mother figure. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

mother country mother dough Mother Earth mother fucker mother general mother goddess