MOTHERLIKE

motherlike

(adjective) suggestive of or acting like a mother

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

motherlike (comparative more motherlike, superlative most motherlike)

Having the quality or suggestive of a mother; maternal, motherly.

Source: Wiktionary



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1 November 2024

DECLINE

(verb) inflect for number, gender, case, etc.; “in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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