mater

IPA: mˈɑtɝ

(Britain, slang, now chiefly archaic or humorous) Mother.
(anatomy) A meninx; the dura mater, arachnoid mater, or pia mater of the brain.
(biology) Someone or something that mates.
Alternative form of 'mater (“tomato”) [(Southern US, Appalachia, informal) Tomato.]

Examples of "mater" in Sentences

And the acting talent from my alma mater is actually good.
Between the human mother and the alma mater is a strong resemblance.
I have to agree that your alma mater is the undergraduate school, in my case CCNY.
Like so many donations, John Lyons's gift to his alma mater is rooted in nostalgia.
Another “famous” quote from my alma mater is “where the men are men, and so are the women” …
The fact of the mater is that there are far more successful startups in the bay area than anywhere else.
In college, (my alma mater is an engineering school where the ratio of guys to girls was 4: 1) the female students always quoted the following: “The odds are good, but the goods are odd!”
The letter, to Bank of New York Mellon Corp. and Bank of America, cited Bank of America's "failure to observe and perform, in mater ial respects" its duties as the servicer for the bond deals.
WORD CORRECT PRONUNCIATION alma mater _alma mater_ apparatus _apparatus_ apricot _apricot_ attaché _attasha'_ audacious _audashus_ ballet _bal'la_ blasé _blaza'_ blatant _blatant_ chasten _chasen_
The gift to his alma mater is part of a seven-year, $1 billion fund-raising campaign that the school publicly announced last week to help boost its endowment, fund the increasing need for scholarship money, redevelop its Livingston campus and more than double the number of endowed chairs to attract and retain faculty.