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Exodejavu Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary
About mother
Hello,
I wonder whether there is a noun suitable to call one's real mother when one wants to mention her together with the stepmother.
I thought of two:
1) blood mother (deduced from the noun "blood relation")
2) maternal mother
Which is better, or any other suggestion?
Regards
I wonder whether there is a noun suitable to call one's real mother when one wants to mention her together with the stepmother.
I thought of two:
1) blood mother (deduced from the noun "blood relation")
2) maternal mother
Which is better, or any other suggestion?
Regards
Top answer
Oddly enough, "blood mother" is never used, although as you say "blood relation" or "blood relative" is. And "maternal mother" is redundant. Adopted children refer to their "birth mother" or "biological mother," but I would not use those terms to distinguish mother from stepmother, unless perhaps the mother died or abandoned the family when the child was very young and the father remarried.
- Oddly enough, "blood mother" is never used, although as you say "blood relation" or "blood relative" is.
- And "maternal mother" is redundant.
- Adopted children refer to their "birth mother" or "biological mother," but I would not use those terms to distinguish mother from stepmother, unless perhaps the mother died or abandoned the family when the child was very young and the father remarried.
- If you use the terms "mother" and "stepmother" together in a sentence, your meaning should be quite clear.
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Oddly enough, "blood mother" is never used, although as you say "blood relation" or "blood relative" is. And "maternal mother" is redundant.
Adopted children refer to their "birth mother" or "biological mother," but I would not use those terms to distinguish mother from stepmother, unless perhaps the mother died or abandoned the family when the child was very young and the father remarried.
Adopted children refer to their "birth mother" or "biological mother," but I would not use those terms to distinguish mother from stepmother, unless perhaps the mother died or abandoned the family when the child was very young and the father remarried.
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