EARTH MOTHER Definition & Meaning

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earth mother

or Earth Mother

noun

the earth conceived of as the female principle of fertility and the source of all life.
a female spirit or deity serving as a symbol of life or fertility.
a sensuous, maternal woman.

earth mother

noun

in various mythologies
1. a female goddess considered as the source of fertility and life
2. the earth personified
informal.
a sensual or fecund woman

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Origin of earth mother¹

First recorded in 1900–05

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Leigh French, as the hippie earth mother in the segment “Share a Little Tea With Goldie,” always appeared to have been drinking something brewed through more than just tea leaves.

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In Native Hawaiian lore, it is the first-born son of the sky father and earth mother.

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Ted Danson, her “Cheers” co-star, once called her “a biker chick crossed with an earth mother” and praised her lack of self-consciousness.

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But in that telepathic moment between the sisters, Serena was not tennis’s earth mother.

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Haloa was the first child of the earth mother and father and was stillborn.

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