mothership
See also: mother ship
English
Etymology 1
Noun
mothership (plural motherships)
- Alternative spelling of mother ship
See also
Etymology 2
Noun
mothership (uncountable)
- The state of being a mother; motherhood
- 1916, Charles Augustus Shook, The Gist of the Bible: A Complete Handbook for Class and Home Study, page 222:
- How did Solomon decide a question of mothership?
- 1884, Francis de Sales, chapter XIV, in Henry Benedict McKay, transl., Treatise on the Love of God, page 101:
- but with her mothership she puts on a lion's heart
- 1913, Susie Colyer Nethersole, Wilsam, page 357:
- At present only the pride of mothership was apparent