# Mother's Day

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A day in honor of one's mother on the second Sunday in May in the United States and Canada.
2. Synonym of Mothering Sunday, the fourth Sunday of Lent, a moveable feast three weeks before Easter, used as a day in honor of mothers in some Commonwealth countries.
3. Other similar holidays honoring mothers or one's mother in various countries.

## Etymology
From Anna Jarvis's campaign in the early 20th century, which insisted on using a singular spelling in order to associate the day with observants' particular mothers.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/mother-s-day