parent
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- noun
- /ˈpɛrənt/
:
progenitor
- So we are now going to cross these parents to one another.
- parent-child
And yet any two siblings of the same parents differ in millions of locations.
- And yet any two siblings of the same parents differ in millions of locations.
- I my new word are feline parents, not tiger.
Examples
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In biology class, we learned that a plant's parent can influence the characteristics of its seeds.
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For instance, the care of aged parents by the children is mandatory in Nigeria.
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It's so hard being a single parent and a career woman.
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The, uh, really good news is that I found the perfect parents for her.
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Are your parents still together?
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Whole families have died, but there are also children without parents and parents without children.
Academic text (2011) -
What the child receives is the quality of the parent's presence.
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Usually it's the parent comparing their child to someone else.
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Indeed, successful nutrition promotion interventions often include a parent component to address nutrition in the home environment.
Academic text (2011) -
And that's why I wrote the book, because parents are being blindsided.
Synonyms
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A person who legally takes a child and raises them as their own
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A thing that makes new life or copies of things
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A person who brings a new life into the world or starts something new
A person or animal that has young
A person who is a child's birth father or mother
Compounds
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A person who cares for a child instead of the child's parents without adopting them
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A person who cares for a child temporarily in their home but is not the child's legal or birth parent
- Literature
A parent who removes problems so their child becomes too dependent on them
Surface Forms
Etymology
Parent comes from the Latin verb parere, which means 'to give birth' or 'to bring forth', so it originally named an animal or plant that produces young.