madre

American  

[mah-thre, mah-dray] / ˈmɑ ðrɛ, ˈmɑ dreɪ /

noun

Spanish.

• madres
  plural

1. mother.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• madres
  plural

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Example Sentences

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madre madres

Like the “Mother Hass” avocado tree in La Habra Heights, the San Gabriel Mission’s vineyards provided the founding madre stock of much of L.A.’s emerging commercial wine industry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2022

A stiff sourdough starter, called a lievito madre or pasta madre, imparts a characteristic flavor and aids in producing an airy internal structure.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2021

“My mother was an angel of a woman and was one of the kindest souls,” he wrote, ending his message with “Te amo madre — I love you mom.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2021

He calls his sourdough starter masa madre, or mother dough, and his baguettes huesos, or bones.

From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2021

I don’t remember much Spanish from school, but he uses the word madre.

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

“ELOISA will be a celebration of everything I learned from my grandma, and an homage to the abuelas, tias, madres, and hermanas de la cocina, combined with my own experiences as a contemporary Latin chef.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2014

The cosecha of the madres produces most abundantly, on account of the settled weather.

From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Shells, or madres abiertas, of excellent mother-of-pearl, of various beautiful colors, are found on its coasts.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by James Alexander Robertson

There are demure processions of maidens from the colegios, sedately promenading two and two, with black-robed madres vainly endeavoring to intercept surreptitious glances and remarks.

From A Woman's Impression of the Philippines by Mary Helen Fee

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