mother christmas
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.74 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The wife of Father Christmas; Mrs. Claus.
Example Sentences
- "One ball is very much like another, just as one Academy is very much like another, Father Christmassses, Mother Christmasses, Red Riding Hoods, Flowers, Chinamen, Seasons, Brides, Bridesmaids, Carmens, Crusoes, and Costers, all were there, jostling one another as they have jostled one another a thousand times before."
- "A mild uproar at the other end of the bar told me without looking that Bunny, the Mother Christmasses and the rest of the band had arrived and had walked into the middle of the darts match."
- "At Cape Town City Libraries the little children thought it was Christmas and the staff felt like Mother Christmasses handing out gifts all week."
- "It's official: Santa is from Greenland, according to an edict from the world's top Father Christmases at their annual summit in Denmark. Sweating it out in the summer heat in white beards and red hats and robes, 130 Father and Mother Christmases and Santa's helpers from 12 countries put an end to debate about which nation is their real home."
- "The previously submitted 67 images — which include a Mother Christmas figure as a counterpart to Santa Claus — were scheduled to be voted on this month."
Etymology
By analogy with Father Christmas.