co-mother

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The relationship of a godmother to the other god-parents, and the legal parents, of a child. obsolete
    — It is considered incestuous for a co-mother and co-father to have sex relations
  2. In polygamy, a wife of one's father who is not one's mother; that is, co-wife of one's mother.
    — the two of them went to their mother's forest hut and tried to find a way to avenge their mother's death and kill their co-mother.
  3. In polygamy, the relationship between one co-wife and another, in respect to their children.
    — Notwithstanding the voluminous “co-wife” literature that Western anthropologists have used to define African marriage, “co-mother” is the preferred idiom in many African cultures for expressing the relationship amongst women married into the same family.
  4. In a lesbian couple, the nonbirth mother (partner of the birth mother) of a child, especially one who takes an equal role in mothering the child.
    — The dilemmas engendered by the absence of a biological tie between a child and co-mother illuminate the centrality of familial rights and obligations in American kinship.

词形变化

co-mothers plural commother alternative

词汇关系

相关词
co-aunt co-grandmother co-maternity co-mother-in-law co-sister co-wife
并列词
co-father co-parent

词源

* com- + mother, as calque of Latin commater, French commère.
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