Explore Matres through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Matres meaning
plural of mater
Using Matres
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of mater
- In the example corpus, matres often appears in combinations such as: honored matres, matres are, matres lectionis.
Context around Matres
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 3 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Matres
- In this selection, "matres" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, honored, syllable, lectionis, attack and insist stand out and add context to how "matres" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include the honored matres and a syllable matres lectionis. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "matres" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with matres
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Teg also goes to a supposed safe house, only to discover the Honored Matres. (14 words)
Teg manages to turn the tables on the Matres, and rescues the Mother Superior and her party. (17 words)
Awed by her physical prowess, the remaining Honored Matres are forced to accept her as their new leader. (18 words)
If words can be written with or without matres lectionis, spellings that include the letters are called malē (Hebrew) or plene (Latin), meaning "full", and spellings without them are called ḥaser or defective. (33 words)
He loads them all up in his no-ship, finally leading his troops out on a last suicidal defense of Rakis, designed to attract the rage of the Honored Matres. (30 words)
Too late, Odrade and Teg realize they have fallen into a trap, and the Honored Matres use a mysterious weapon to turn defeat into victory, as well as capturing Odrade. (30 words)
Example sentences (12)
Awed by her physical prowess, the remaining Honored Matres are forced to accept her as their new leader.
He loads them all up in his no-ship, finally leading his troops out on a last suicidal defense of Rakis, designed to attract the rage of the Honored Matres.
If words can be written with or without matres lectionis, spellings that include the letters are called malē (Hebrew) or plene (Latin), meaning "full", and spellings without them are called ḥaser or defective.
Odrade next calls a meeting of all the Bene Gesserit, announcing her plan to attack the Honored Matres.
Teg also goes to a supposed safe house, only to discover the Honored Matres.
Teg manages to turn the tables on the Matres, and rescues the Mother Superior and her party.
The Honored Matres attack Rakis, destroying the planet and the sandworms — except for the one the Bene Gesserit escape with.
The Honored Matres have also destroyed the entire Bene Tleilax civilization, with Tleilaxu Master Scytale the only one of his kind left alive.
The Honored Matres insist Taraza invite Teg to the ship, hoping to gain control of the ghola project.
The Matres are seeking to assimilate the technology and developed methods of the Bene Gesserit and exterminate the Sisterhood itself.
The omission of vowels was not always a satisfactory solution and some "weak" consonants are sometimes used to indicate the vowel quality of a syllable ( matres lectionis ).
Too late, Odrade and Teg realize they have fallen into a trap, and the Honored Matres use a mysterious weapon to turn defeat into victory, as well as capturing Odrade.
Common combinations with matres
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: