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View synonyms for mother lode

mother lode

or moth·er·lode

[ muhth-er-lohd ]

noun

  1. Mining. a rich or important lode.
  2. a major or profitable source or supply:

    New York City is a mother lode of actors.



mother lode

noun

  1. mining the principal lode in a system
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of mother lode1

First recorded in 1855–60
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Example Sentences

In August 1803, she hit the mother lode and married Prince Camillo Borghese.

The mother lode he turned to was the ganglia of so-called feeder funds.

The richest bonanza that the "mother lode" ever yielded he struck.

Not to darkness, but to eternal light, to rise again from the Mother Lode to mingle in the busy lives of men.

Flapjack confessed to having spent weeks looking for that mother lode about Freezeout Camp.

Where so much dust and nuggets come from along a crick bed, we knowed there must be a regular mother lode somewheres here.

He starts from the placer fields to search for the mother lode.

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