Maternal
adjective
Connected to being a mother or to motherhood.
Her strong maternal instincts kicked in when she saw the child in danger.
Often appears as...
- maternal instinct
- maternal love
adjective
Related through the mother's side of the family.
Her maternal grandfather was an artist.
Often appears as...
- maternal cousin
- maternal grandfather
adjective
Related to or originating from a mother, particularly during pregnancy or childbirth.
They are studying the effects of smoking on maternal and infant health.
Often appears as...
- maternal health
- maternal mortality
adjective
Feeling or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother.
The kitten's maternal instincts caused her to protect the little birds.
Often appears as...
- maternal instincts
- maternal attitude
adjective
Connected to being a mother or to motherhood.
Her strong maternal instincts kicked in when she saw the child in danger.
Often appears as...
- maternal instinct
- maternal love
adjective
Related through the mother's side of the family.
Her maternal grandfather was an artist.
Often appears as...
- maternal cousin
- maternal grandfather
adjective
Related to or originating from a mother, particularly during pregnancy or childbirth.
They are studying the effects of smoking on maternal and infant health.
Often appears as...
- maternal health
- maternal mortality
adjective
Feeling or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother.
The kitten's maternal instincts caused her to protect the little birds.
Often appears as...
- maternal instincts
- maternal attitude
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Emotional Connection
Refers to feelings and actions expected from a caring mother.
Her maternal response to seeing the injured puppy was to immediately help.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Just Biological
Can describe someone who has a motherly role without being an actual mother.
The teacher's maternal guidance helped the shy student open up.
Pro Tip 1/2Emotional Connection
Refers to feelings and actions expected from a caring mother.
Her maternal response to seeing the injured puppy was to immediately help.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Just Biological
Can describe someone who has a motherly role without being an actual mother.
The teacher's maternal guidance helped the shy student open up.
Pro Tip 1/2Emotional Connection
Refers to feelings and actions expected from a caring mother.
Her maternal response to seeing the injured puppy was to immediately help.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Just Biological
Can describe someone who has a motherly role without being an actual mother.
The teacher's maternal guidance helped the shy student open up.
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Mining literature for...
which, again, allows us to access those big ideas that reveal the deeper meaning of a story, ideas, in this case, like the parameters of maternal instinct, the consequences of injustice, and the question of whether or not ethics can even exist in a corrupted moral system. It's impossible to sit down
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Matthieu Ricard: How to...
we showed that the brain networks for empathy and loving-kindness are different. Now, that's all well done, so we got that from evolution, from maternal care, parental love, but we need to extend that. It can be extended even to other species.
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The End of Roe v. Wade...
And most of those deaths are preventable. So in our world where we control the reins of power, we would ensure, we would ensure that there were programs to reduce this alarming rate of maternal mortality. And we would make sure
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Kelli Swazey: Life that...
to its natural end. So by having death as a part of the cultural and social fabric of life, people's everyday decisions about their health and healthcare are affected. The patriarch of my husband's maternal clan,
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Rita Pierson: Every kid...
I have spent my entire life either at the schoolhouse, on the way to the schoolhouse, or talking about what happens in the schoolhouse. Both my parents were educators, my maternal grandparents were educators,
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Hans Rosling: The good...
Look here -- you have to end poverty, education, gender, child and maternal health, control infections, protect the environment and get the good global links between nations in every aspect from aid to trade.
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CUTE Orphan Orangutans...
we have a total at the moment of eight or a maternal age vulnerable orphan has gone through the trauma of losing his or her mother the long-term goal is to release them into protected forests and
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I am here to confuse you...
strong women my paternal grandmother was a teacher a furious smoker a fast Walker and a supporter of a soccer team that most of her children detested my maternal grandmother who sexually racy
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See What Canyon Life Is...
was a preacher but my maternal grandfather said to me US natives after DNA of a tree and I started learning myself how we do have a Navajo tradition and that's why I try to teach my kids
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Why Are Wild Parrots...
a loving caring home but if they're wild parents that they should be free these birds are my life they are and my love I must have a strong maternal
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Mining literature for...
which, again, allows us to access those big ideas that reveal the deeper meaning of a story, ideas, in this case, like the parameters of maternal instinct, the consequences of injustice, and the question of whether or not ethics can even exist in a corrupted moral system. It's impossible to sit down
Video examples
Matthieu Ricard: How to...
we showed that the brain networks for empathy and loving-kindness are different. Now, that's all well done, so we got that from evolution, from maternal care, parental love, but we need to extend that. It can be extended even to other species.
Video examples
The End of Roe v. Wade...
And most of those deaths are preventable. So in our world where we control the reins of power, we would ensure, we would ensure that there were programs to reduce this alarming rate of maternal mortality. And we would make sure
Video examples
Kelli Swazey: Life that...
to its natural end. So by having death as a part of the cultural and social fabric of life, people's everyday decisions about their health and healthcare are affected. The patriarch of my husband's maternal clan,
Video examples
Rita Pierson: Every kid...
I have spent my entire life either at the schoolhouse, on the way to the schoolhouse, or talking about what happens in the schoolhouse. Both my parents were educators, my maternal grandparents were educators,
Video examples
Hans Rosling: The good...
Look here -- you have to end poverty, education, gender, child and maternal health, control infections, protect the environment and get the good global links between nations in every aspect from aid to trade.
Video examples
CUTE Orphan Orangutans...
we have a total at the moment of eight or a maternal age vulnerable orphan has gone through the trauma of losing his or her mother the long-term goal is to release them into protected forests and
Video examples
I am here to confuse you...
strong women my paternal grandmother was a teacher a furious smoker a fast Walker and a supporter of a soccer team that most of her children detested my maternal grandmother who sexually racy
Video examples
See What Canyon Life Is...
was a preacher but my maternal grandfather said to me US natives after DNA of a tree and I started learning myself how we do have a Navajo tradition and that's why I try to teach my kids
Video examples
Why Are Wild Parrots...
a loving caring home but if they're wild parents that they should be free these birds are my life they are and my love I must have a strong maternal
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Al Pacino
American Actor
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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Kim Fields
American Actress
I was always very maternal with my friends. I wasn't the kind of little girl that played with dolls and pretended I was the mommy. I wasn't that child, so when I say I was always maternal, I don't mean in that sense - but I've always been a nurturer.
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Christy Turlington
American Model
Every Mother Counts is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother. We inform, engage, and mobilize audiences to take action and raise funds that support maternal health programs around the world.
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Erica Jong
American Novelist
I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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Hillary Clinton
American Politician
I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.
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Omari Hardwick
American Actor
I would say that the woman's ability to multi-task and to be maternal in instinct, it fosters a different approach to the character that makes sense as an actor.
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Harry A. Blackmun
American Judge
The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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Rosemary Mahoney
American Writer
Not one day of my mother's adult life passed without some critical demand on her maternal role, without some urgent response from her.
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S. J. Perelman
American Writer
He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
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Lela Loren
American Actress
While I resonate deeply with my maternal cultural heritage, I identify as American.
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Al Pacino
American Actor
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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Kim Fields
American Actress
I was always very maternal with my friends. I wasn't the kind of little girl that played with dolls and pretended I was the mommy. I wasn't that child, so when I say I was always maternal, I don't mean in that sense - but I've always been a nurturer.
Quote examples
Christy Turlington
American Model
Every Mother Counts is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother. We inform, engage, and mobilize audiences to take action and raise funds that support maternal health programs around the world.
Quote examples
Erica Jong
American Novelist
I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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Hillary Clinton
American Politician
I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.
Quote examples
Omari Hardwick
American Actor
I would say that the woman's ability to multi-task and to be maternal in instinct, it fosters a different approach to the character that makes sense as an actor.
Quote examples
Harry A. Blackmun
American Judge
The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
Quote examples
Rosemary Mahoney
American Writer
Not one day of my mother's adult life passed without some critical demand on her maternal role, without some urgent response from her.
Quote examples
S. J. Perelman
American Writer
He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
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Lela Loren
American Actress
While I resonate deeply with my maternal cultural heritage, I identify as American.
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