single mother

Informal, single mom

noun

1. a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.

Word History and Origins

Origin of single mother¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

I unexpectedly became a single mother at 16.

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What both of them have in common is that they survived both their harrowing childhoods in Nicaragua and their unrelentingly challenging journeys in America, having been raised by a single mother, whose death still haunts them.

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Joyce, a single mother, stresses over her long-grown daughter’s impending wedding.

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Xenarios was a single mother during much of her career; even before Giorgos Xenarios died in 2002, he would spend half of each year in Greece, running his jewelry business.

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The 51-year-old single mother who has more than 20 years at BAT has seen the industry and the business transform.

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