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cow-mother

cow-mother noun: a personification of a maternal cow worshipped as a goddess.

Noun

cow-mother (plural cow-mothers)

  1. A personification of a maternal cow worshipped as a goddess.
    • A new generation has appeared, and the universal feminine is expressed not so much as Hathor, the cow-mother, but as Isis, the wife and consort.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 217

Forms of cow-mother

pluralcow-mothers

Questions about cow-mother

What does cow-mother mean?
Cow-mother means a personification of a maternal cow worshipped as a goddess.
What part of speech is cow-mother?
Cow-mother is a noun.
What is the plural of cow-mother?
The plural of cow-mother is cow-mothers.

Words near cow-mother in the dictionary

  1. cow-hocked
  2. cow-juice
  3. cow-lick
  4. cow-lilies
  5. cow-lily
  6. cow-mother
  7. cow-mothers
  8. cow-nosed ray
  9. cow-orker
  10. cow-orkers
  11. cow-pat

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