la madre. 'la madre'. This feminine noun means 'mother'. For example, 'ahora está casada y es madre de familia' / 'Now she is married and the mother of a family'. La madre.
madre
feminine noun
1.
mother
(mujer, hembra)
- es madre de tres niños -> she's a mother of three
- Alicia va a ser madre -> Alicia's going to have a baby
- madre adoptiva -> foster mother
- madre de alquiler -> surrogate mother
- madre biológica -> natural mother
- la madre patria -> the motherland
- madre política -> mother-in-law
- madre soltera -> single mother
- madre superiora (religion) -> mother superior
2.
bed
(cauce)
- salirse de madre -> to burst its banks; (río) to go too far (figurative) (persona)
3.
(expresiones)
- ¡madre mía! -> Jesus!, Christ!
- éramos ciento y la madre (informal) -> there were hundreds of us there
- ¡la madre que te parió! (muy informal) -> you bastard!
- dar a alguien en la madre -> to kick somebody's head in (Mexican Spanish)
- me vale madre (informal) -> I couldn't give a damn o (Mexican Spanish) a toss (British)
- ser la madre del cordero (informal figurative) -> to be at the very root of the problem
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madre [mah’-dray]
noun
1.
A mother. (f)
2.
Mother superior (convento). (f)
3.
Expectant mother (embarazada). (f)
4.
Mother, a title given to religious women 5. (f)
5.
Basis, foundation, origin. (f)
6.
Matrix womb, 8. (f)
7.
Sewer sink. (f)
8.
Mother, a substance concreted in liquors, or the less or scum concreted. (f)
9.
Mother, a familiar term of address to an old woman, 12. (f)
- Madre de leche -> a wet-nurse
- Mal de madre -> 1. Mother or hysterical passion. 2. The state of children spoiled by their mother. Madre política, mother-in-law. Su señora madre, your mother. Sin madre motherless. Ciento y la madre, hundreds of people. -a. 1. (Lit.) Mother. Buque madre, mother ship. Lengua madre, parent language. 2. La cuestión madre, the chief problem. 3. (LAm.) Tremendous, terrific.
Matron (hospital). Bed of a river (de río). The principal irrigating ditch whence small branches issue.
madre
1 (pariente) mother
ser madre to be a mother; futura madre mother-to-be; su señora madre especialmente (México) your mother; sin madre motherless; ¡madre mía! good heavens!
madre adoptiva adoptive mother
madre biológica biological mother
madre de alquiler surrogate mother
madre de Dios Mother of God
¡madre de Dios! good heavens!
madre de familia mother
madre genética biological mother
madre nodriza surrogate mother
la Madre Patria the Mother Country; the Old Country
madre política mother-in-law
madre soltera single mother; unmarried mother
madre trabajadora working mother
3
como su madre lo echó al mundo o lo parió in his birthday suit (familiar); starkers (familiar)
ni madre not a dicky bird (familiar); not a sausage (familiar)
ciento y la madre hundreds of people
ahí está la madre del cordero that's just the trouble; that's the crux of the matter
darle a algn en la madre (México) to wallop sb (familiar); thump sb
mentarle la madre a algn to insult sb violently; (violently)
¡(me cago en) la madre que te parió! fuck off! (vulgar)
no tener madre
él no tiene madre he's a real swine (familiar); esto no tiene madre this is the limit
a toda madre
de la madre (Latinoamérica)
great (familiar); fantastic (familiar)¡tu madre! up yours! (vulgar); get stuffed! (vulgar)
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