1. A woman who carries and gives birth to a child for another person or couple
   "a surrogate mother is artificially inseminated with the father's semen and carries the foetus to term"
    
2. A female animal that raises the offspring of another
   "The orphaned kitten was accepted by a surrogate mother cat"

Derived forms: surrogate mothers

Type of: female parent, ma [informal], mam [UK, informal], mama [informal], mamma [informal], mammy [informal], mater [UK, archaic, informal], mom [N. Amer, informal], momma [N. Amer, informal], mommy [N. Amer, informal], mother, mum [Brit, informal], mumma [informal], mummy [informal], supermom [informal]

Encyclopedia: Surrogate mother