mother goose

Definition of Mother Goose in English :

1. mother goose

the imaginary author of a collection of nursery rhymes

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Mother Goose

noun

the imaginary author of the collection of nursery rhymes published in 1781 in London as Mother Goose's Melody

1.

the imaginary narrator of a collection of tales (c. 1697) by Charles Perrault

2.

the imaginary creator of a collection of nursery rhymes first published (1765?) in London

n.

The imaginary author of Mother Goose's Tales, a collection of nursery rhymes first published in London in the 1700s.