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mama

ˈmɑmə
WordNet
With caption: Mama.
With caption: Mama.
  1. (n) Mama
    a name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped
  2. (n) mama
    informal terms for a mother
Illustrations
Wooden case with beautiful iron fittings, covered with carved leather. Ribbon-shaped decoration, showing "MAMA" on the lid. A monster on either side of the lock. On four iron balls. With key.
Wooden case with beautiful iron fittings, covered with carved leather. Ribbon-shaped decoration, showing "MAMA" on the lid. A monster on either side of the lock. On four iron balls. With key.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
Mothers were originally named mama or mommy (in many languages) because they have mammary glands.
  1. Mama
    See Mamma.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
Montgomery is the birthplace of music great Nat King Cole, pop singers Clarence Carter and Toni Tenille, Metropolitan Opera singer Nell Rankin, and blues legend Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton.
  1. (n) mama
    Mother: a word used chiefly in address and familiar intercourse, especially by and with infants, children, and young people.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Mama
    mother—used chiefly by young children
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Mama, a repetition of ma, the first syllable a child naturally utters.

Usage in the news

Rocco DiSpirito's Mama's Spaghetti and Meatballs . cbsnews.com

Jimmy Sannino, owner of Mama Sanninos, has decades of experience behind him. estword.com

Megan Fox is one foxy mama. usmagazine.com

He's big-headed, stubborn, childish, and most certainly a mama's boy. browardpalmbeach.com

Mama's got a squeezebox . csindy.com

Mama's got a squeezebox , Daddy never sleeps at night. brooklynpaper.com

Karen Gilchrist, guest columnist: Listening to Mama counted big for women's suffrage . acotrib.com

Safe in Mama's arms with a sun hat fashioned from a shirt and enjoying the beach in Chicago is Ayvah. vindy.com

Fox has a special treat for all the mamas -- and even the papas. radaronline.com

So, apparently Mama Toad was opportunistic and loved to reproduce (3 generations of tadpoles ) and believed in public assistance as I have not seen her again. t-g.com

"any mamas got any advice on when my baby teethes". usmagazine.com

It's the PC All Star Garage Band at Mango Mama's Saturday night for the All Class Reunion of Port Clinton High School. thebeacon.net

Reese Witherspoon is one fit mama-to-be. usmagazine.com

She'll perform with The Red Hot Mamas at the third annuall Blues and Brews event on Nov 10. villagelife.com

And the Saturday before that, you saw a movie with your Mama. blufftontoday.com

Usage in scientific papers

Furthermore, stellar density distribution of η Cha cluster member seems to be spherical (Mama jek, Lawson, & Feigelson 2000).
Velocity Dispersion of Dissolving OB Associations Affected by External Pressure of Formation Environment

In recent years, a new technique in stellar age-dating has become available, in addition to improvements in the precision of traditional methods (e.g. measuring the lithium depletion, chromospheric activity, asteroseismology and isochrone fitting to HR diagrams Mama jek et al. 2007).
Temporal Variability of Stars and Stellar Systems

Mama jek et al. A Splinter Session on the Thorny Problem of Stellar Ages.
Temporal Variability of Stars and Stellar Systems

Since M = mS and mama = m ¯m for a ∈ S , we see Lad is the smallest subrule of L containing ⌊m ¯m⌋.
Generalized Tambara-Yamagami categories

The nominal uncertainty for such chromospheric ages is estimated to be around ±50% at a single epoch (Soderblom et al. 1991; Mama jek & Hillenbrand 2008).
Discovery of a Highly Unequal-Mass Binary T Dwarf with Keck Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics: A Coevality Test of Substellar Theoretical Models and Effective Temperatures

Usage in literature

Maclean fixes the altitude of San Pedro Mama, Santa Olaya, and Cocachacra, at 5331 feet. "Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests" by J. J. von Tschudi

Mama wore this for years, and then gave it to me. "Hester's Counterpart" by Jean K. Baird

You take care of the rest of the world, Philly, but mama and I take care of you. "The Faith Doctor" by Edward Eggleston

Mama purchased thirty copies of the paper, that she might cut out the paragraph and send it to friends and acquaintances. "Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen" by Hans Christian Andersen

The nurse knew what to do, And a block down the street lived Mama! "Three Women" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Mama would have nothing to eat; they say you stole two onces, and two onces make thirty-two pesos. "An Eagle Flight" by José Rizal

I'll go and tell mama. "Nobody's Girl" by Hector Malot

The very children had at last left off asking inconvenient questions about their mama. "McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908" by Various

Gamble sold mama and three children to Fulton. "Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves" by Work Projects Administration

Annie wrote Mama that she was very ill, in Munich, and poor Mama just flew. "The Beloved Woman" by Kathleen Norris

Usage in poetry
Sleep on, precious Alma,
Take your eternal rest,
Mama and papa're coming
To take you to their breast.
"Don't cry, mama," she softly said--
"Here's a Christmas gift for you,"
And on the mother's cheek a kiss
She printed warm and true.
Mama is always worried, though
She smiles a frightful lot:
She smiles when she's with Aunt — but, oh!
She doesn't when she's not.
When I heard the news from Molly,
Why, I thought at first 't was jolly,
'Cause, you see,
I s'posed I could go and get him
And then Mama, course, would let him
Play with me.
Sweeter and cuter and brighter and stronger,
Mama can see every day how he's grown.
Shoes are all battered, stockings all tattered,
Oh! but the baby is baby no longer
Look at the fellow—he's walking alone!
Baby is growing while Mama sings by-lo,
Sturdy and rosy and laughing and fair,
Crowing and growing past every one's knowing,
Out goes the cradle and in comes the "high-lo,"
Baby's next journey is into this chair.