Mother's Day
Mother's Day noun: a day in honor of one's mother on the second Sunday in May in the United States and Canada.
Noun
Mother's Day (plural Mother's Days)
- A day in honor of one's mother on the second Sunday in May in the United States and Canada.
- Synonym of Mothering Sunday, the fourth Sunday of Lent, a moveable feast three weeks before Easter, used as a day in honor of mothers in some Commonwealth countries.
- Synonyms:
- Mothering Sunday
- Other similar holidays honoring mothers or one's mother in various countries.
Mother's Day meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam and Kannada
Mother's Day in Tamil
- a day in honor of one's mother or all mothers, on whichever day
- அன்னையர் நாள் aṉṉaiyar nāḷ
Mother's Day in Marathi
- a day in honor of one's mother or all mothers, on whichever day
- मातृदिन mātŕdin
Mother's Day in Malayalam
- a day in honor of one's mother or all mothers, on whichever day
- മാതൃദിനം mātr̥dinaṁ
Mother's Day in Kannada
- a day in honor of one's mother or all mothers, on whichever day
- ತಾಯಂದಿರ ದಿನ tāyandira dina
More languagesFewer languages
- Mother's Day in Tagalog
- Araw ng mga Ina
- Mother's Day in Arabic
- عِيد اَلْأُمّ ʕīd al-ʔumm
- Mother's Day in Indonesian
- Hari Ibu
- Mother's Day in Persian
- روز مادر ruz-e mâdar
- Mother's Day in Vietnamese
- ngày Hiền Mẫu, ngày của Mẹ, ngày lễ các bà mẹ
Synonyms of Mother's Day
Forms of Mother's Day
| plural | Mother's Days |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Mothers' Day |
| alternative form | Mothers Day |
Origin of Mother's Day
From Anna Jarvis's campaign in the early 20th century, which insisted on using a singular spelling in order to associate the day with observants' particular mothers.
Questions about Mother's Day
- What does Mother's Day mean?
- Mother's Day means a day in honor of one's mother on the second Sunday in May in the United States and Canada.
- What is Mother's Day in Tamil?
- Mother's Day in Tamil is அன்னையர் நாள் (aṉṉaiyar nāḷ). See Mother's Day meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is Mother's Day?
- Mother's Day is a noun.
- What is the plural of Mother's Day?
- The plural of Mother's Day is Mother's Days.
Words near Mother's Day in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Mother's Day (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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