mum

noun
🔊/mʌm/
🔊/mʌm/
(British English)
(North American English mom)
(informal)
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  1. a mother妈妈;妈
    • Call your mum.打电话给妈妈
    • My mum says I can't go.我妈说我不能去。🔊🔊
    • Happy Birthday, Mum.妈妈,生日快乐!🔊🔊
    • A lot of mums and dads have the same worries.许多父母都有同样的担忧。🔊🔊
    • She's a single mum with two kids.她是一个有两个孩子的单身妈妈。
    • expectant/new/young/teenage mums准妈妈/新妈妈/年轻妈妈/青少年妈妈
    • stay-at-home/working mums待在家里/工作的妈妈
    Extra Examples
    • Bella lives with her mum in Oxford.贝拉和妈妈一起住在牛津。
    • Marc waved goodbye to his mum.马克向妈妈道别。
    • The cat acted as a surrogate mum to the chicks.这只猫当起了小鸡的代理妈妈。
    • The group is aimed at new mums with young babies.该群体针对的是初为人母的女性。
    • She's a single mum raising two kids on her own.她是一个单亲妈妈,独自抚养两个孩子。
    • Young mums can often find themselves isolated.年轻的妈妈经常会发现自己与世隔绝。
    • She has just become the proud mum of a baby girl.她刚刚成为一名女婴的骄傲妈妈。
    Topics Family and relationshipsa1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • young
    • single
    • unmarried
    phrases
    • mum and dad
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    Word Originnoun mid 17th cent.: abbreviation of mummy ‘mother’.

mum

adjective
🔊/mʌm/
🔊/mʌm/
Word Originadjective late Middle English: imitative of a sound made with closed lips.
Idioms
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Idioms
keep mum
  1. (informal) to say nothing about something; to stay quiet缄口不言;保持沉默
    • He kept mum about what he'd seen.他对他所看到的只字不说。🔊🔊
mum’s the word!
  1. (informal) used to tell somebody to say nothing about something and keep it secret(提醒别人保守秘密)不要外传