mother house

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noun Roman Catholic Church.

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

a self-governing convent having authority over other houses.

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Nearby words

mother figure, mother goddess, mother goose, mother goose rhymes, mother hen, mother house, mother hubbard, mother language, mother liquor, mother lode, mother nature

Origin of mother house

First recorded in 1665–75

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for mother house

You see, Reverend Mother has given me a letter to the Superior in the mother-house, and other letters, too.
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It has constantly thriven, and the mother-house at Tottenham is a center for various benevolent enterprises.
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Almost contemporary with the mother-house arose the normal school for infant-school teachers.
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Between 1846 and 1850 more than sixty deaconesses were at work at twenty-five different stations outside of the mother-house.
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It contains the mother-house of the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 7|Various