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Meaning of "lone mother" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LONE MOTHER

lone mother  [ləʊn ˈmʌðə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LONE MOTHER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Lone mother is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LONE MOTHER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of lone mother in the English dictionary

The definition of lone mother in the dictionary is a mother with no husband or partner, who is bringing up a child or children.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LONE MOTHER


another
əˈnʌðə
brother
ˈbrʌðə
foremother
ˈfɔːˌmʌðə
godmother
ˈɡɒdˌmʌðə
grandmother
ˈɡrænˌmʌðə
great-grandmother
ˌɡreɪtˈɡrændmʌðə
housemother
ˈhaʊsmʌðə
mother
ˈmʌðə
mutha
ˈmʌðə
other
ˈʌðə
smother
ˈsmʌðə
stepbrother
ˈstɛpˌbrʌðə
stepmother
ˈstɛpˌmʌðə
thother
ˈðʌðə
tother
ˈtʌðə
wuther
ˈwʌðə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LONE MOTHER

lone
lone father
lone hand
lone pair
lone parent
lone star state
lone wolf
lone-parent family
lonelier
loneliest
lonelily
loneliness
lonely
lonely hearts
lonely hearts ad
lonely hearts club
lonely hearts column
loneness
loner
lonesome

WORDS THAT END LIKE LONE MOTHER

baby-mother
Big Brother
bother
each other
earth mother
either
every other
expectant mother
in one ear and out the other
no other
none other
one another
one way and another
one with another
or other
significant other
single mother
smoother
somehow or other
the other
through-other

Synonyms and antonyms of lone mother in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «lone mother» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LONE MOTHER

Find out the translation of lone mother to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of lone mother from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «lone mother» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

孤独的母亲
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

madre sola
570 millions of speakers

English

lone mother
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लोन मां
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أم وحيد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

одинокая мать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mãe solteira
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

একমাত্র মা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mère seule
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ibu tunggal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

alleinerziehender Mutter
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

孤独な母親
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

외로운 어머니
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lone ibu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mẹ đơn độc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தனியாக அம்மா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

एकमेव आई
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yalnız anne
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

madre sola
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

samotny matka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

самотня мати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mama singuratic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μοναχικός μητέρα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

eensaam ma
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lone mor
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mor
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lone mother

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LONE MOTHER»

The term «lone mother» is used very little and occupies the 182.962 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LONE MOTHER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «lone mother» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «lone mother» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about lone mother

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LONE MOTHER»

Discover the use of lone mother in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lone mother and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Diminished Rights: Danish Lone Mother Families in ...
Diminished rights is a unique qualitative study that documents the daily lives of vulnerable lone mothers and their children in Denmark.
Valerie Polakow, Therese Halskov, Per Schultz Jørgensen, 2001
2
Lone Mothers in Ireland: A Local Study
First, the term "lone mother" requires definition. Interpreted literally, the term would encompass a wide range of family circumstances — for example an elderly widow living in her own home with her adult son or daughter, a young, teenage ...
A. McCashin, 1996
3
Lone Motherhood in Twentieth-century Britain: From Footnote ...
5 Introduction In the first part of this chapter we examine a range of demographic, social, and economic characteristics of lone mother families, assessing the extent to which the lone mother families differ from one another and from married ...
Kathleen Kiernan, Jane E. Lewis, Hilary Land, 1998
4
Single Mothers In International Context: Mothers Or Workers?
This legislation was later amended so that if a divorced lone mother did not receive any support from her ex-husband for a year, she would be able to apply for the child rearing allowance. In the place of income supplement provision, however, ...
Duncan, Simon; Edwards, Rosalind, Simon Duncan, Simon Duncan University of Bradford; Rosalind Edwards South Bank University.,, 2013
5
Poverty, Inequality, and the Future of Social Policy: ...
In 1984, the average salary of a lone mother was 85 percent of the national mean , whereas the salary of a married woman was only 76 percent of the national average. In contrast, the average married man's salary was 139 percent of the mean ...
Katherine McFate, Roger Lawson, William Julius Wilson, 1995
6
Demographic and Social Implications of Low Fertility for ...
lone-mother families (relative to all families), but at the same time it leads to more children who live with a lone mother (relative to all children). This can be explained as follows. Increased childlessness implies fewer families consisting of a ...
Nico Keilman, 2003
7
Lone Parenthood: An Economic Analysis
A lone mother works if Uw > U", or V(w,p,Z-FC-XM > g(B-Xc,T-Lc). (6.9) Wages clearly do not affect utility when the mother does not have a job, while the properties of the indirect utility function entail that dV/dw > o. Fixed costs of employment ...
John Ermisch, 1991
8
Lone Parent Families: Gender, Class and State
Using this approach we find that 7 per cent of women in the survey had, at some point in their lives, become a single lone mother. That is, they had given birth to a child prior to any marriage or cohabitation. But how does this vary by social ...
Karen Rowlingson, Stephen McKay, 2014
9
The Dynamics of Child Poverty in Industrialised Countries
In almost all countries, lone-mother children have greater poverty risks than children in two-parent households. The two exceptions are Italy (where only 2 per cent of children are in lone-mother households) and Poland.6 The poverty rate of  ...
Bruce Bradbury, Stephen P. Jenkins, John Micklewright, 2001
10
Hardship & Health Womens Lives
Hilary Graham. 2. Mother quoted in Graham (1980), p.45. 3. Mother quoted in Popay (1992), p.114. 4. Mother quoted in Eyles and Donovan (1990), pp.49-50. 5 . Lone mother quoted in Daly (1988), pp.7 . 6. Mother quoted in Cohen et al.
Hilary Graham, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LONE MOTHER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term lone mother is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Sharp fall in number of single parents on benefits
Almost one in four children live with a lone mother or father. Employment minister Priti Patel said the Government would make it easier for lone ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
2
Locally-grown fruits struggle to find market
In Mongar, in the meanwhile, a lone mother in Dongyog, Dechen 42, is worried. Not much income can be made from her big avocado tree. «Kuensel, Buhutan's National Newspaper, Jul 15»
3
Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft, the real women's liberationists
As a lone mother, she was a social outcast, but went on to publish perhaps one of her greatest works, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway and ... «The Australian Financial Review, Jul 15»
4
Budget 2015: turning Benefits Street into a dead end
The second effect, which may be even more important, is to make the option of being a lone mother on benefits less attractive. Britain became ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
5
'My child might be better off an orphan' - Lone parents protest …
Another lone mother, Paulina, who didn't want to give her last name, said she is now losing €60 a week, which may severely affect her child. «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
6
'I was advising a woman with five kids about budgeting. What she …
He gives the example of social workers needing to visit a lone mother regularly, where a much better form of intervention would be to help her ... «Irish Times, Jun 15»
7
What can be done to fix Scottish education?
... her son was awarded a full bursary to George Heriot's School from which my own son has just left, wrote: “I am a lone mother of a 12-year-old ... «Holyrood.com, Jun 15»
8
Outgoing mayor tells of 'wonderful' charity
Others it recently helped include a lone mother in Selsey and a married couple with a one-year-old daughter in Chichester. Dynamic Dart ... «Chichester Observer, May 15»
9
Where was the first Anzac day Dawn Service?
Listen as John Barron takes you through what he found and listen out for the story of the lone mother and the three soldiers. You will want to ... «ABC Online, Apr 15»
10
Woman eats three 72-ounce steaks in 20 minutes
On another the lone mother. Sure enough, in the end, Sunday's contest at Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, Texas, wasn't even close. «fox5sandiego.com, Apr 15»

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