Definitions for mothers
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1. Mothers

   Mothers was a club in the Erdington district of Birmingham, West Midlands, during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Mothers opened above an old furniture store in Erdington High Street on 9 August 1968. The club, run by John 'Spud' Taylor and promoter Phil Myatt, closed its doors on 3 January 1971. Between these times, more than 400 acts performed there, many of whom went on to greater success. Well known live recordings that took place in Mothers were the recordings that Pink Floyd released on Ummagumma, recorded on 27 April 1969., and parts of "Facelift" by Soft Machine, released on Third, recorded 11 January 1970. The Who performed Tommy and Traffic's world debut took place at Mothers along with fledgling rock bands like Black Sabbath playing some of their earliest gigs there. Some of the other well known rock bands and artists to play Mothers include: Family, Fleetwood Mac,John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Eclection, Edgar Broughton Band, Free, Roy Harper, Blodwyn Pig, Strawbs, Quintessence, Steppenwolf, Deep Purple, The Deviants, Jethro Tull, Jon Hiseman's Colosseum, Skid Row, The Nice, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Elton John, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Soft Machine, The Chicago Transit Authority, Moby Grape, Canned Heat and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.

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1. Mothers

   Female parents, human or animal.

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1. mothersnoun

   Plural noun of mother.

   It was her mothers birthday in May, as a child she saved her pocket money to buy her a gift and made sure she saved well in advance.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 12, 2016  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'mothers' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3054

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'mothers' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3700

Anagrams for mothers »

1. smother

2. thermos

How to pronounce mothers?

1. Alex

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   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of mothers in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of mothers in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of mothers in a Sentence

1. Gugu Mbatha-Raw:

   I think we just look back at our mothers, our mothers' mothers, and our mothers' mothers' mothers, we have so much power just in our DNA. I hope people will realize that you don't need all of these special effects to feel that you have power inside of you.

2. Jane Chen and Drue Kataoka:

   On the swaddles and blankets we only have hands of mothers and babies of developing countries. It’s unusual to have fine art on baby products, so when you are holding your baby – holding the most precious thing in the world – you will also be holding the hands, crisscrossing hands with mothers and babies from around the world.

3. Katharine Zaleski:

   If it takes this woman becoming a mother to understand the value of working mothers and have compassion for them, then I guess we can't expect men to understand and have compassion because they will never be able to be mothers themselves.

4. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   Men are what their mothers made them.

5. George Carlin:

   I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

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