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n. Chiefly British Mother.

n. See alma mater, dura mater, and pia mater.

n. A Middle English form of matter.

n. Mother: in certain special uses. See alma mater, and phrases below.

n. In anatomy, one of two membranes or meninges of the brain, outer and inner, separated by the arachnoid, and distinguished as dura mater, or dura, and pia mater, or pia: so called from some idea that they produce the brain.—

n. The large metallic disk which forms the foundation of an astrolabe, and carries at its circumference the graduation upon which the indications of the alidade or index are read.

n. an informal use of the Latin word for mother; sometimes used by British schoolboys or used facetiously

"WORD CORRECT PRONUNCIATION alma mater _alma mater_ apparatus _apparatus_ apricot _apricot_ attaché _attasha'_ audacious _audashus_ ballet _bal'la_ blasé _blaza'_ blatant _blatant_ chasten _chasen_"

mother    female parent   

mater familias    mater aceti   

alma mater    dura mater    pia mater   

Attar    Crater    Creator    Decatur    Equator    Hatter    Lemaitre    Mercator    Pater    Potter   

Pater    filium    dicis    recte    intellego    erit    aliquando    hercle    huc    argento