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mom¹

  • /mɒm/ UK
  • /mɑm/ US
  • [mɑ̃m] US
  • /mɒm/ Canada, New England
  • /mʌm/ Canada, New England

Rhymes with -ɒm

Where it comes from

Clipping of momma.

noun moms · mam · Mom · mum · Mum

  1. Canada, South Africa, US, West Midlands, colloquial, informal Mother. To find out what moms really want this year, we turned to the best source possible: our own mothers.
  2. Canada, South Africa, US, West Midlands, broadly, colloquial used as a term of address for one's wife (spoken by the father) I don't share it with mom! Right, mom?
  3. informal An adult female owner of a pet.

verb moms · momming · mommed · mam · Mom

  1. Canada, US, informal, transitive To care for in a motherly way. The shock of my news had worn off, and now she'd want to know where I was, how I was doing, and she'd sniff out that I was with someone. “I just wanted to check in on you.” That was Mom. Totally unashamed about momming me.

Mom²

  • /mɒm/ UK
  • /mɑm/ US

Sounds like mom · Rhymes with -ɒm, -ɑm

Where it comes from

Proprialisation of mom.

proper noun

  1. informal One’s mother. I wish Mom and Dad didn't argue so much.

    Similar: Mam, Mommy, Mother, Mummy, Mum · Opposite: Dad

Mom³

  • /mɒm/ UK
  • /mɑm/ US

Sounds like mom · Rhymes with -ɒm, -ɑm

Where it comes from

Transliteration of Khmer មុំ (mum, “corner, angle”).

proper noun Moms

  1. A surname from Khmer.

Mom⁴

  • /mɒm/ UK
  • /mɑm/ US

Sounds like mom · Rhymes with -ɒm, -ɑm

Where it comes from

Transliteration of Thai หม่อม (mɔ̀m)

noun

  1. prefix of a female commoner who marries a royal prince.

MoM⁵

adjective

  1. abbreviation, initialism, not comparable Initialism of month-over-month/month-on-month; compared to the same time period in the previous month.

noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism, middle Initialism of middle of the market

MOM⁶

noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of message-oriented middleware, hardware or software infrastructure supporting sending and receiving of messages between distributed systems.
  2. abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of motive, opportunity, means (“factors to consider in investigating a crime”).
  3. alternative, uncountable Alternative form of MoM

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: mama, mum, mommy, momma, mammy, mater, mummy, mamma, ma, mam, amma, mami, mother, maternally, maternal, daddy

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"mom." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/mom. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

mom. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/mom

Chicago

"mom." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/mom.

BibTeX
@misc{mom_2026,
  title = {mom},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mom},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}