A mother is a female parent.

Mother may also refer to:

Literature[edit | edit source]

• “Mother” (short story), a 1907 short story by Owen Wister
• Mother (novel), 1906 novel by Maxim Gorky
• “A Mother“, a 1914 short story by James Joyce

Theatre[edit | edit source]

• Mother (opera), a 1929 opera by the Czech composer Alois Hába
• Mother, a 1938 opera by Valery Zhelobinsky
• Mother, opera by Tikhon Khrennikov
• Mother (play), a 1910 play by Jules Eckert Goodman

Film[edit | edit source]

United States[edit | edit source]

• Mother (1910 film), an American silent film by the Thanhouser Company
• Mother (1914 film), an American silent film by Maurice Tourneur
• Mother, a 1927 American silent film written by Charles Kerr
• Mother (1996 film), an American film by Albert Brooks
• Mother, a 2006 short film by Sian Heder
• mother!, a 2017 American film by Darren Aronofsky
• Mother, a computer in Alien (1979)

Europe[edit | edit source]

• Mother (1926 film), a Russian film by Vsevolod Pudovkin
• Mother (1937 film), a Hungarian film by Johann von Vásáry
• Mother (1955 film), a Soviet film by Mark Donskoy
• Mother (1990 film), a Soviet film by Gleb Panfilov
• Mother (2016 Georgian film), a short film directed by Rati Tsiteladze
• Mother (2016 Estonian film), an Estonian film
• Mother (2017 Spanish film), a short film by Rodrigo Sorogoyen
• Mother (2019 Spanish film), a film by Rodrigo Sorogoyen based on his short film of the same name

Asia[edit | edit source]

• Mother, a 1935 Chinese film by Wen Yimin
• Mother, a 1949 Chinese film by Shi Hui (director)
• Mother (1952 film), a Japanese film by Mikio Naruse
• Mother, a 1956 Chinese film by Ling Zifeng
• Mother (1963 film), a Japanese film by Kaneto Shindo
• Mother (1985 film), a Korean film by Park Chul-soo
• Ibunda, a 1986 Indonesian film by Teguh Karya, released internationally as Mother
• Mother (1991 film), an Iranian film by Ali Hatami
• Mother (1999 film), an Indian film starring Rekha
• Mother (2009 film), a South Korean film by Bong Joon-ho
• Mother (2014 film), a Japanese film by Kazuo Umezu
• Mother (2020 film), a Japanese film by Tatsushi Ōmori

Television[edit | edit source]

Series[edit | edit source]

• Mother (Japanese TV series), a 2010 Japanese television drama
• Mother (Turkish TV series), a 2016 Turkish television drama
• Mother (South Korean TV series), a 2018 South Korean TV series

Episodes[edit | edit source]

• “Mother” (Once Upon a Time), a 2015 episode from the TV series Once Upon a Time
• “Mother” (The Flash), an episode from the TV series The Flash
• “Mother”, an episode from the sixth season of Fear the Walking Dead
• “Mother…”, an episode of Fullmetal Alchemist

Characters[edit | edit source]

• Mother (The Avengers), a 1960s British TV character
• Mother Mona Robinson, mother of Angela Bower in the television series Who’s the Boss?

Games[edit | edit source]

• Mother (video game), a 1989 role-playing video game
  • Mother (video game series)

Music[edit | edit source]

Bands[edit | edit source]

• Mother Mother, a Canadian rock band formerly called Mother

Albums[edit | edit source]

• Mother (In This Moment album), 2020
• Mother (Kubb album), 2005
• Mother (Luna Sea album), 1994
• Mother (Natalie Maines album), 2013
• Mother (Mother Mother album), 2005
• Mother (Cleo Sol album), 2021
• Mother (Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka album), 1989
• Mother (Jacky Terrasson and Stéphane Belmondo album), 2016
• Mother (Veil of Maya album), 2023
• Mother (Susumu Yokota album), 2009
• Mother, an album by Gilli Smyth

Songs[edit | edit source]

• “Mother” (Axel Hirsoux song), 2014
• “Mother” (Blondie song), 2011
• “Mother” (Charlie Puth song), 2019
• “Mother” (Danzig song), 1988
• “Mother” (John Lennon song), 1970
• “Mother” (Luna Sea song), 1995
• “Mother” (Meghan Trainor song), 2023
• “Mother” (Pink Floyd song), 1979
• “Mother”, by the Afro Celt Sound System from Volume 5: Anatomic
• “Mother”, by Ashanti from The Declaration
• “Mother”, by Chicago from Chicago III
• “Mother”, by Era from Era
• “Mother”, by Goldie from Saturnz Return
• “Mother”, by Cyndi Lauper from Sisters of Avalon
• “Mother”, by Florence + the Machine from How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
• “Mother”, by James from Seven
• “Mother”, by M-Factor
• “Mother”, by Moloko from Things to Make and Do
• “Mother”, by The Police from Synchronicity
• “Mother”, by Puffy AmiYumi from Mother/Nehorina hahorina
• “Mother”, by Ray Charles released as single in 2002
• “Mother”, by Red House Painters from Red House Painters
• “Mother”, by Tori Amos from Little Earthquakes
• “Mother”, from the musical A Chorus Line
• “Mother”, by Kacey Musgraves from Golden Hour
• “MOTHER”, by Susumu Hirasawa from Technique of Relief
• “M-O-T-H-E-R”, by Howard Johnson
• “Mother”, by Blonde Redhead from Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
• “Mother”, by Porter Robinson from Nurture

Food and drink[edit | edit source]

• Mother (drink)
• Mother’s, a kosher food brand owned by The Manischewitz Company
• Fermentation starter, sometimes called a “mother”, used to start the fermentation process in making various foods and drinks
  • Kombucha mother, or SCOBY (for symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast), occurring in the making of kombucha
  • “Mother” or “mother dough”, a pre-ferment starter dough
  • Mother of vinegar

Other uses[edit | edit source]

• Mother (advertising agency), a British advertising agency
• Motherboard, the main printed circuit board found in microcomputers
• Mother, prototype of the British Mark I tank
• (Sometimes spelled “moth-er”), a person who studies moths

See also[edit | edit source]

•  The dictionary definition of moth-er
• All pages with titles beginning with Mother
• All pages with titles containing Mother
• Ma (disambiguation)
• Mama (disambiguation)
• Mom (disambiguation)
• Mommy (disambiguation)
• Mothers (disambiguation)
• Mum (disambiguation)
• Mummy (disambiguation)
• Mutha (disambiguation)
• The Mother (disambiguation)
• Queen-mother (disambiguation)