mother superior

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noun,plural mother superiors, mothers superior.
  1. the head of a Christian religious community for women.

Origin of mother superior

1
First recorded in 1905–10

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How to use mother superior in a sentence

  • “We live under different rules here,” she said, eyeing her mother superior who kept a watchful eye from a corner chair.

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  • That point is where the convent purse rattles thinly and the mother-superior must face hunger.

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  • And the mother-superior, being a sensible woman, agreed to engage a certain number of teachers from the outer world.

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  • Rumours were rife of large loans raised by the mother superior, of mortgages on the factory buildings and the machinery.

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  • The mother superior, the cur himself, had visited her, had said strange and wonderful things to her which she scarcely understood.

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  • “I could not stand it any longer, madame,” she assured the mother superior, with hot tears in her big eyes.

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British Dictionary definitions for mother superior

mother superior

nounplural mother superiors or mothers superior
  1. the head of a community of nuns

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