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matres

matres is the plural of mater.

Meaning of mater

Noun (1)

mater (plural maters or matres)

  1. (formal, humorous) Mother.
    • Their maters are all pals of my mater’s, and I don’t want to get them into trouble for aiding and abetting my little show, if you understand what I mean.1919 June 14, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, “A Damsel in Distress”, in George Horace Lorimer, editor, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 191, number 50, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company...
  2. A meninx; the dura mater, arachnoid mater, or pia mater of the brain.

Noun (2)

mater (plural maters)

  1. Someone or something that mates.

Phrases with matres

Questions about matres

What is matres the plural of?
Matres is the plural of mater.

Words near matres in the dictionary

  1. matrass
  2. matrasses
  3. Matraville
  4. Matrena
  5. matrep
  6. matres
  7. matres lectionis
  8. matrescence
  9. matrescent
  10. matresfamilias
  11. matreshka

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Adapted from Wiktionary: matres (page history and authors); mater (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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