mother house

noun

Roman Catholic Church.

1. a convent housing a mother superior of a community of nuns.

2. a self-governing convent having authority over other houses.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mother house¹

First recorded in 1665–75

Example Sentences

Times owners the Chandlers, which they dubbed the Mother House, in 1972.

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For “Pelosi in the House,” the documentarian Alexandra Pelosi had what is surely unprecedented access to film her mother, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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“This is my beautiful mother,” House said as she displayed the first photo.

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"Cornelia restored the chapel in the 1860s and it became the mother house and hub of the teaching order she founded, the Society of the Holy Child Jesus," she told the BBC.

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Hyper-partisanship is something American Selfie’s director Alexandra Pelosi knows well – her mother, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is one of the Maga-sphere’s most loathed targets, and a frequent recipient of the president’s Twitter ire.

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