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instamom

instamom is the alternative form of insta-mom.

Meaning of insta-mom

Noun

insta-mom (plural insta-moms)

  1. A childless woman who enters into a relationship with a man who has children, instantly becoming a mother.
    Synonyms:
    instant mom, instant mother

Noun capitalized: Instamom

Instamom (plural Instamoms)

  1. (informal) A mother who runs an Instagram account focused on her child or children or motherhood in general.
    • My advice for new mamas is to take all those beautiful Instamom photos with a grain of salt, because a carefully cropped square leaves the rest of a person's reality out of the frame.2019, Leslie Anne Bruce, You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom: So Embrace the Chaos, Get Over the Guilt, and Be True to You, unnumbered page
    • The sampling consisted of five Instamoms with more than 100,000 followers recruited using purposive sampling.2021, Arzu Kalafat Çat, “Virtual Identities And Self-Presentation In Social Media Instagram Mothers”, in Enes Emre Başar, Pınar Bacaksız, editors, New Paradigms within the Communication Sciences...

Forms of instamom

pluralinstamoms
pluralInstamoms
alternative UKInstamum

Origin of instamom

Blend of Instagram + mom.

Questions about instamom

What does instamom mean?
Instamom means a mother who runs an Instagram account focused on her child or children or motherhood in general.
What is instamom the alternative form of?
Instamom is the alternative form of insta-mom.
What part of speech is instamom?
Instamom is a noun.
What is the plural of instamom?
The plural of instamom is instamoms.

Words near instamom in the dictionary

  1. Instamatics
  2. instamine
  3. instamined
  4. instamines
  5. instamining
  6. instamom
  7. instamoms
  8. instamp
  9. instamped
  10. instamping
  11. instamps

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: instamom (page history and authors); Instamom (page history and authors); insta-mom (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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