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mother·house (-ho̵us′)

noun

  1. a monastery or other religious house from which one or more additional religious houses have been founded
  2. the headquarters of a religious community

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