single mother

noun

: a mother who does not have a husband or partner

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Wise holds her own as Nicole, a widow and single mother studying to be a massage therapist. Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2025 At the time, Suleman was an unemployed single mother with six children. Ashley Hume, Fox News, 25 Jan. 2025 However, sticking to her overall intention with the film, Berg draws a line between this technical skill and Buckley’s ethereal spirit, which, having been raised by a single mother, contained both masculine and feminine features and poured love onto others with reckless abandon. Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 24 Jan. 2025 Based on the French and Belgian television series HPI, High Potential centers on Morgan Guillory, a single mother with three children who is a cleaning lady for the Los Angeles Police Department. Marc Berman, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for single mother 

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“Single mother.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/single%20mother. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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