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moms

UK/mɒmz/US[mɑmz]

moms is the plural of mom.

Meaning of mom

Noun

mom (plural moms)

  1. (Canada, South Africa, US, West-Midlands, colloquial, informal) Mother.
    • To find out what moms really want this year, we turned to the best source possible: our own mothers.2025 May 1, Carolina Gazal, “We asked our moms what they want for Mother’s Day. Here’s what they said”, in CNN
    1. (Canada, South Africa, US, West-Midlands, broadly, colloquial) used as a term of address for one's wife
      • (spoken by the father) I don't share it with mom! Right, mom?2017, Allstate: All Alone
  2. (informal) An adult female owner of a pet.

See all 7 meanings of mom

Noun

moms (plural moms)

  1. (African-American Vernacular) Affectionate term of address for one's mother.
    • but I remember this, moms would lick her finger tips / to wipe the cold out my eye before school with her spit1996, Ghostface Killah, All That I Got Is You
    • My moms, Noojie, had told me that the two little stumps on the sides of my hands came from being born with six fingers, and that's why I was always stealing something.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 34

Proper noun capitalized: Moms

Moms

  1. (plural) plural of Mom

Forms of moms

pluralmoms

Origin of moms

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

From mom + -s (hypocoristic suffix).

Phrases with moms

6 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with moms

Questions about moms

What does moms mean?
Moms means affectionate term of address for one's mother.
What is moms the plural of?
Moms is the plural of mom.
What part of speech is moms?
Moms can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce moms?
Moms is pronounced /mɒmz/ (UK).
What is the plural of moms?
The plural of moms is moms.

Words near moms in the dictionary

  1. momphid
  2. momphids
  3. mompreneur
  4. mompreneurs
  5. mompreneurship
  6. moms
  7. moms-in-law
  8. momser
  9. momserim
  10. momsers
  11. momship

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: moms (page history and authors); Moms (page history and authors); 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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