Associations to the word «Mater»

Wiktionary

MATER, noun. (British slang) (now) (chiefly archaic or humorous) Mother.
MATER, noun. (biology) Someone or something that mates.
MATER LECTIONIS, noun. (phonology) A consonant letter used to represent a vowel sound in Semitic scripts.

Dictionary definition

MATER, noun. An informal use of the Latin word for mother; sometimes used by British schoolboys or used facetiously.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope