"birthmother" meaning in All languages combined

See birthmother on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: birthmothers [plural]
Etymology: birth + mother Etymology templates: {{compound|en|birth|mother}} birth + mother Head templates: {{en-noun}} birthmother (plural birthmothers)
  1. The biological mother of an adopted child. Categories (topical): Female family members, Parents Synonyms: biomother, birth mother Related terms: birthparent, birthfather

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for birthmother meaning in All languages combined (1.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "birth",
        "3": "mother"
      },
      "expansion": "birth + mother",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "birth + mother",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "birthmothers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "birthmother (plural birthmothers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Female family members",
          "orig": "en:Female family members",
          "parents": [
            "Family members",
            "Female people",
            "Family",
            "Female",
            "People",
            "Gender",
            "Human",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Parents",
          "orig": "en:Parents",
          "parents": [
            "Family members",
            "Family",
            "People",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989 June 16, Adoptive mother and father, “Top-Notch Agency”, in Chicago Reader",
          "text": "The Agency educated us on the adoption process and gave us the opportunity to meet with other adoptive parents and also prospective birthmothers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The biological mother of an adopted child."
      ],
      "id": "en-birthmother-en-noun-dnuYcB31",
      "links": [
        [
          "biological",
          "biological"
        ],
        [
          "adopt",
          "adopt"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "birthparent"
        },
        {
          "word": "birthfather"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "biomother"
        },
        {
          "word": "birth mother"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "birthmother"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "birth",
        "3": "mother"
      },
      "expansion": "birth + mother",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "birth + mother",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "birthmothers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "birthmother (plural birthmothers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "birthparent"
    },
    {
      "word": "birthfather"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Female family members",
        "en:Parents"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989 June 16, Adoptive mother and father, “Top-Notch Agency”, in Chicago Reader",
          "text": "The Agency educated us on the adoption process and gave us the opportunity to meet with other adoptive parents and also prospective birthmothers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The biological mother of an adopted child."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "biological",
          "biological"
        ],
        [
          "adopt",
          "adopt"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "biomother"
    },
    {
      "word": "birth mother"
    }
  ],
  "word": "birthmother"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (ae36afe and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.