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Ibu — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • mother noun A female parent.
  • Mrs abbreviation A title placed before the surname or full name of a married woman.

Senses

Ibu is used for these senses in English:

  • Mrs Abbreviation of Missus or Mistress; used before an adult woman's name or surname, used for any high-status woman without regard to marital status until the 1800s, after which it began to be reserved for married, divorced and widowed women and used with their married surnames.
  • mother A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).

mother — full definition

  1. noun A female parent.
  2. noun The origin or source of something.
  3. verb To care for someone the way a mother would, sometimes to an overprotective degree.

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