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1 mother-country
nouns (the country where one was born.) πατρίδα -
2 mother
1. noun1) (a female parent, especially human: John's mother lives in Manchester; ( also adjective) The mother bird feeds her young.) μητέρα2) ((often with capital: also Mother Superior) the female leader of a group of nuns.) ηγουμένη2. verb(to care for as a mother does; to protect (sometimes too much): His wife tries to mother him.) φροντίζω σαν μάνα- motherless
- motherly
- motherliness
- mother-country
- motherland
- mother-in-law
- mother-of-pearl
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3 queen
[kwi:n]1) (a woman who rules a country, who inherits her position by right of birth: the Queen of England; Queen Elizabeth II.) βασίλισσα2) (the wife of a king: The king and his queen were both present.) βασίλισσα3) (a woman who is in some way important, excellent or special: a beauty queen; a movie queen.) `βασίλισσα`4) (a playing-card with a picture of a queen on it: I have two aces and a queen.) ντάμα5) (an important chess-piece: a bishop, a king and a queen.) βασίλισσα6) (the egg-laying female of certain kinds of insect (especially bees, ants and wasps).) βασίλισσα7) ((slang) a homosexual man who assumes the female role.) κίναιδος, πούστης•- queenly- queen mother
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