mum

noun

/mʌm/

(British English)

(North American English mom)

(informal)

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a mother
- Call your mum.
- My mum says I can't go.
- Happy Birthday, Mum.
- A lot of mums and dads have the same worries.
- She's a single mum with two kids.
- expectant/new/young/teenage mums
- stay-at-home/working mums
Extra Examples
- Bella lives with her mum in Oxford.
- Marc waved goodbye to his mum.
- The cat acted as a surrogate mum to the chicks.
- The group is aimed at new mums with young babies.
- She's a single mum raising two kids on her own.
- Young mums can often find themselves isolated.
- She has just become the proud mum of a baby girl.
Topics Family and relationshipsa1
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- young
- single
- unmarried
- …
phrases
- mum and dad
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Word Originnoun mid 17th cent.: abbreviation of mummy ‘mother’.

mum

adjective

/mʌm/

Word Originadjective late Middle English: imitative of a sound made with closed lips.

Idioms

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Idioms

keep mum

(informal) to say nothing about something; to stay quiet
- He kept mum about what he'd seen.

mum’s the word!

(informal) used to tell somebody to say nothing about something and keep it secret

单词	mum
释义	mum noun /mʌm/ /mʌm/ (British English) (North American English mom) (informal) jump to other results a mother Call your mum. My mum says I can't go. Happy Birthday, Mum. A lot of mums and dads have the same worries. She's a single mum with two kids. expectant/new/young/teenage mums stay-at-home/working mums Extra Examples Bella lives with her mum in Oxford. Marc waved goodbye to his mum. The cat acted as a surrogate mum to the chicks. The group is aimed at new mums with young babies. She's a single mum raising two kids on her own. Young mums can often find themselves isolated. She has just become the proud mum of a baby girl. Topics Family and relationshipsa1 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective young single unmarried … phrases mum and dad See full entry Word Originnoun mid 17th cent.: abbreviation of mummy ‘mother’. mum adjective /mʌm/ /mʌm/ Word Originadjective late Middle English: imitative of a sound made with closed lips. Idioms jump to other results Idioms keep mum (informal) to say nothing about something; to stay quiet He kept mum about what he'd seen. mum’s the word! (informal) used to tell somebody to say nothing about something and keep it secret
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