co-mother

noun

(obsolete) The relationship of a godmother to the other god-parents, and the legal parents, of a child. / In polygamy, a wife of one's father who is not one's mother; that is, co-wife of one's mother.

My co-mother is very supportive and caring.

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意味（1）

(obsolete) The relationship of a godmother to the other god-parents, and the legal parents, of a child.

Coordinate term: co-father

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In polygamy, a wife of one's father who is not one's mother; that is, co-wife of one's mother.

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In polygamy, the relationship between one co-wife and another, in respect to their children.

Notwithstanding the voluminous “co-wife” literature that Western anthropologists have used to define African marriage, “co-mother” is the preferred idiom in many African cultures for expressing the relationship amongst women married into the same family.

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