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mom (mäm)

noun

Informal mother

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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mom Usage Examples

Possessives

  • house: I found myself in front of my first mom's house.

Preposition: of

  • child: I'm a single mom of 1 child, 2 horses, 1 pony, 1 dog and 2 cats.

Converse of object

  • scratch: One night we left droppings splattered around in my grandmother's penthouse while elephants scratched mom 's favorite pink Cadillac.

Adjective modifier

  • stay-at-home: By the end of the first chapter, the author has effectively reduced her audience to stay-at-home moms.

Noun used with modifier

  • soccer: She's hot, in a soccer mom sort of way.
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