earth mother
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- noun
- /ˈɜrθ ˈmʌðər/
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madre naturaleza
- "And not you, Helga, earth-mother," thought Virginia.
Examples
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Everyone loved her nurturing spirit; she truly embodied the earth mother archetype.
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That's all I need, an earth mother therapist.
Fiction book (1996) -
Fleur is warm and loving, a real earth mother.
Fiction book (1996) -
This suggests that she is (or was) also an earth mother whose womb (the wax gourd) was fecundated by the Sun.
Academic text (2016) -
In many creation myths, this is achieved not through the cutting up of a single being, but through the separation of a couple—usually an earth mother and a sky father.
Academic text (2016) -
As an earth mother, she nurtured her garden and taught her children to respect nature.
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Her passion for environmentalism and gardening made her the perfect earth mother figure in the community.
Synonyms
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A person from Earth who cares about protecting the planet
How Nature-Connected
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person strongly connected to nature and nurturing' is directly derivable from combining 'earth' (the natural world) with 'mother' (a nurturing caregiver), so the sense follows straightforward compositional logic. This metaphorical but transparent compound is cross-linguistically common (e.g., 'Mother Earth'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would likely infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Earth mother comes from the simple picture of a woman who cares for the earth like a mother, planting seeds, sharing food and helping nature grow. That's why it is used for 'a woman who is close to nature and very caring'.