mater
(noun) an informal use of the Latin word for mother; sometimes used by British schoolboys or used facetiously
Source: WordNet® 3.1
mater (plural maters or matres)
(British slang, now, chiefly, archaic or humorous) Mother.
(anatomy) A meninx; the dura mater, arachnoid mater, or pia mater of the brain.
mater (plural maters)
(biology) Someone or something that mates.
mater (plural maters)
Alternative form of 'mater (“tomato”)
• METAR, armet, metra, ramet, tamer, terma, trema, trĂ©ma
Source: Wiktionary
Ma"ter, n. Etym: [L., mother. See Mother.]
Definition: See Alma mater, Dura mater, and Pia mater.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
14 October 2024
(adjective) shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges; “the surface of the ocean was rippled and corrugated”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
