Usually means: Head nun in a convent.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. mother superior: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Mother Superior, mother superior: Merriam-Webster
  3. Mother Superior, mother superior: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mother superior: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mother superior: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mother superior: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mother-Superior, mother-superior: Wordnik
  8. Mother Superior, mother superior: Wiktionary
  9. mother superior: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. mother superior: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. mother superior: Dictionary.com
  12. Mother Superior (band), Mother Superior (disambiguation), Mother Superior, Mother superior: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. mother superior: Rhymezone
  14. mother superior: FreeDictionary.org
  15. mother superior: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. mother superior: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. Mother Superior: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mother superior: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mother superior: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mother superior: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mother superior: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mother superior, mother superior: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. mother superior: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Mother Superior)

noun:  A nun in charge of a priory or convent; either a prioress or an abbess.
noun:  The head of a convent; an abbess.

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