English Explanatory Dictionary

co-mother

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The relationship of a godmother to the other god-parents, and the legal parents, of a child.
  2. In polygamy, a wife of one's father who is not one's mother; that is, co-wife of one's mother.
  3. In polygamy, the relationship between one co-wife and another, in respect to their children.
  4. In a lesbian couple, the nonbirth mother (partner of the birth mother) of a child, especially one who takes an equal role in mothering the child.

Word forms

co-mother co-mothers commother

Etymology

* com- + mother, as calque of Latin commater, French commère.

Synonyms

cummer gossip commère sister-wife stepmother

Related words

co-aunt co-grandmother co-maternity co-mother-in-law co-sister co-wife
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