mother superior

noun

, plural mother superiors, mothers superior.

1. the head of a Christian religious community for women.

mother superior

noun

1. the head of a community of nuns

Word History and Origins

Origin of mother superior¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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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