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motherdom

motherdom noun: the world, sphere, or unity of mothers; mothers collectively.

Noun

motherdom (uncountable)

  1. The world, sphere, or unity of mothers; mothers collectively.
    • Lastly, religion is represented as fostering the cause of women, chiefly through its mysteries assigning a divine character, as it were, to motherdom as compared with fatherdom.1886, John Ferguson McLennan, Studies in ancient history
    • That the Aeschylean Oresteia turns on the conflict between motherdom and fatherdom is notorious.1906, The Classical Review

Origin of motherdom

From mother + -dom.

Questions about motherdom

What does motherdom mean?
Motherdom means the world, sphere, or unity of mothers; mothers collectively.
What part of speech is motherdom?
Motherdom is a noun.

Words near motherdom in the dictionary

  1. motherboard
  2. motherboards
  3. motherchucker
  4. motherchuckers
  5. mothercraft
  6. motherdom
  7. mothered
  8. mothered up
  9. mothereffer
  10. mothereffers
  11. mothereffing

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