Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

motherdom

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: moth-er-dom
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The world, sphere, or unity of mothers; mothers collectively.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Lastly, religion is represented as fostering the cause of women, chiefly through its mysteries assigning a divine character, as it were, to motherdom as compared with fatherdom."
"That the Aeschylean Oresteia turns on the conflict between motherdom and fatherdom is notorious."
"Bachofen, the protagonist of the "mother-right" theory in the last century, observed that "motherdom is related to the idea of the day-bearing night, as fatherdom is to light sprung from the union of the sun with mother night.""

Etymology

From mother + -dom.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: mother

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does motherdom mean?: The world, sphere, or unity of mothers; mothers collectively.
Where does motherdom come from?: From mother + -dom.

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