mothership

See also: mother ship

English

Noun

mothership (countable and uncountable, plural motherships)

1. Alternative spelling of mother ship
2. The state of being a mother; motherhood
   • 1916, Charles Augustus Shook, The Gist of the Bible: A Complete Handbook for Class and Home Study, page 222:

     How did Solomon decide a question of mothership?

   • 1884, Francis de Sales, chapter XIV, in Henry Benedict McKay, transl., Treatise on the Love of God, page 101:

     but with her mothership she puts on a lion's heart

   • 1913, Susie Colyer Nethersole, Wilsam, page 357:

     At present only the pride of mothership was apparent

See also

• mothercraft