surrogate mother

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noun

a person who acts in the place of another person's biological mother.

an animal that is given another's offspring to raise.

Medicine/Medical. a woman who helps a couple to have a child by carrying to term an embryo conceived by the couple and transferred to her uterus, or by being inseminated with the man's sperm and either donating the embryo for transfer to the woman's uterus or carrying it to term.

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Origin of surrogate mother

First recorded in 1975–80

Words nearby surrogate mother

surreptitious, surreptitiously, surrey, surrogacy, surrogate, surrogate mother, surround, surrounded, surrounding, surroundings, surround sound

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How to use surrogate mother in a sentence

Betty opened her family’s doors to me and she always looked out for me like a surrogate mother.
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Catch the two together in the new comedy movie Together Together about a single man’s quest for a surrogate mother, and catch Notaro at the virtual OZY Fest 2021 this weekend.
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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.
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But my sources, my young women and their mother, heroically held firm.
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I thought about the mother, her fear of the dark, of the harm she feared might come to her daughters.
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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.
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"The Smoker," and "Mother and Daughter," a triptych, are two of her principal pictures.
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Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
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The mother's lips could not finish the charge she was about to put upon her innocent child.
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The Authorised Version has: “And as a mother shall she meet him, and receive him as a wife married of a virgin.”
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British Dictionary definitions for surrogate mother

surrogate mother

noun

a woman who bears a child on behalf of a couple unable to have a child, either by artificial insemination from the man or implantation of an embryo from the woman

Derived forms of surrogate mother

surrogacy (ˈsʌrəɡəsɪ), noun

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