motherhouse
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8.1
- noun
- /ˈmʌðərˌhaʊs/
- Specialized
:
casa madre
- This order was founded in 1901, when some nuns of Polish descent detached themselves from the German-American order of School Sisters of Saint Francis (Milwaukee's Motherhouse).
Examples
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The relatively late arrival in Milwaukee of this order was partly due to its geographical remoteness, after the order's motherhouse had been transferred from Wisconsin to Michigan.
Academic text (1994) -
The order had come to the United States in 1847 from Germany, and in 1850 set up its motherhouse in Milwaukee.
Academic text (1994) -
Sister Margaret Quinlan saw residents of the community right outside the gates of her motherhouse struggling with poverty and lack of education.
Blog text (15) -
The Sisters of Saint Joseph came here first, most probably because their motherhouse was located in nearby Stevens Point, Wisconsin.
Academic text (1994) -
"Now," she went on with her account, "Anakha's ancestor was a Pandion Knight dwelling with his brethren in the motherhouse of his order in the city.
Fiction book (1993) -
Quite simply, de Vaux's archaeology characterizes the site of Qumran as a "motherhouse" of a religious sect, thereby supplying the link between the scrolls on the one hand and the ruins of Qumran on the other.
Academic text (1998) -
As we saw, it is de Vaux's archaeological work that interprets the site of Qumran as the motherhouse of a communal, celibate, ascetic religious sect (link 4).
Academic text (1998) -
The order had come to the United States in 1847 from Germany, and in 1850 set up its motherhouse in Milwaukee.
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Sister Margaret Quinlan saw residents of the community right outside the gates of her motherhouse struggling with poverty and lack of education.
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By graduation, I had resided at three different motherhouses among sisters whose congregations were all members of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.
Synonyms
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6.5
A large building where monks or nuns live and worship
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5.6
A building where nuns live and pray together
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8.1
A building where religious women live and work
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9.9
A building where monks or nuns live and pray
A place where people live apart to focus on religion, like a monastery or convent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word motherhouse combines mother and house to mean the 'mother' or 'main home' of a group, the place that cares for and leads the other houses. That's why a motherhouse is the main convent or headquarters of a religious order.