mother figure
noun
a woman embodying or seeming to embody the qualities of an idealized conception of the female parent, eliciting from others the emotional responses that a child typically has toward its mother.
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- mother church,
- mother city,
- mother country,
- mother cyst,
- mother earth,
- mother goddess,
- mother goose,
- mother goose rhymes,
- mother hen,
- mother house
Also called mother image.
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