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–noun

1.	Mother (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu), 1910–97, Albanian nun: Nobel peace prize 1979 for work in the slums of Calcutta, India.

2.	Saint. Theresa, Saint.

3.	a female given name, form of Theresa.

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Albanian-born Indian nun. Dedicated to relieving the suffering of India's desperately poor and dying people, she founded a Roman Catholic congregation of sisters, the Missionaries of Charity, in 1950. She won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize.

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mother teresa
noun
Indian nun and missionary in the Roman Catholic Church (born of Albanian parents in what is now Macedonia); dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997) [syn: Teresa]

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Mother Teresa [(tuh-ree-suh, tuh-ray-zuh)]

A Roman Catholic nun, born in Yugoslavia, who received the Nobel Prize for peace in 1979 for her humanitarian work among lepers and other dying poor of Calcutta.

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