mother lode

or moth·er·lode

[ muhth-er-lohd ]

/ ˈmʌð ərˌloʊd /

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noun

Mining. a rich or important lode.

a major or profitable source or supply: New York City is a mother lode of actors.

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Origin of mother lode

First recorded in 1855–60

Words nearby mother lode

mother-in-law's tongue, motherland, mother language, motherless, mother liquor, mother lode, motherly, mother-naked, Mother Nature, mother of, mother of coal

How to use mother lode in a sentence

Taraji manages to bring an equal measure of truth to the mother in her character.
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Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
I Tried to Warn You About Sleazy Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in 2003|Vicky Ward|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But my sources, my young women and their mother, heroically held firm.
I Tried to Warn You About Sleazy Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in 2003|Vicky Ward|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
I thought about the mother, her fear of the dark, of the harm she feared might come to her daughters.
I Tried to Warn You About Sleazy Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in 2003|Vicky Ward|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Meanwhile two kids were taken from their mother when she flew back to the UK from Turkey.
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There was no doubt thought of his own loss in this question: yet there was, one may hope, a germ of solicitude for the mother too.
Children's Ways|James Sully
"The Smoker," and "Mother and Daughter," a triptych, are two of her principal pictures.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The mother's lips could not finish the charge she was about to put upon her innocent child.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter
The Authorised Version has: “And as a mother shall she meet him, and receive him as a wife married of a virgin.”
Solomon and Solomonic Literature|Moncure Daniel Conway

British Dictionary definitions for mother lode

mother lode

noun

mining the principal lode in a system

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mother lode

or moth·er·lode

Origin of mother lode

Words nearby mother lode

Words related to mother lode

How to use mother lode in a sentence

British Dictionary definitions for mother lode