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noun(ma-ter)mother
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Latin noun phrase(ma-ter)sorrowful mother —used especially for depictions of the Virgin Mary grieving over her dead son
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noun(ma-ter)a school, college, or university which one has attended or from which one has graduated
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noun(ma-ter)the song or hymn of a school, college, or university
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noun(ma-ter)the tough fibrous membrane that envelops the brain and spinal cord external to the arachnoid and pia mater
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noun(ma-ter)the thin vascular membrane that invests the brain and spinal cord internal to the arachnoid and dura mater
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Latin phrase(ma-ter)the mother was standing —title of a Latin hymn about the suffering of the Virgin Mary during the Crucifixion of Jesus
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noun(ma-ter)any of several grain sorghums widely grown in warm dry regions