mothership

See also: mother ship

English

Noun

mothership (countable and uncountable, plural motherships)

  1. Alternative spelling of mother ship
  2. The state of being a mother; motherhood
    • 1916, Charles Augustus Shook, The Gist of the Bible: A Complete Handbook for Class and Home Study, page 222:
      How did Solomon decide a question of mothership?
    • 1884, Francis de Sales, chapter XIV, in Henry Benedict McKay, transl., Treatise on the Love of God, page 101:
      but with her mothership she puts on a lion's heart
    • 1913, Susie Colyer Nethersole, Wilsam, page 357:
      At present only the pride of mothership was apparent

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