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cow-mothers

cow-mothers is the plural of cow-mother.

Meaning of cow-mother

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

Questions about cow-mothers

What is cow-mothers the plural of?
Cow-mothers is the plural of cow-mother.

Words near cow-mothers in the dictionary

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

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