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par·ent
(pâr′ənt, păr′-)n.
1.
a. A female person whose egg unites with a sperm or a male person whose sperm unites with an egg, resulting in the conception of a child or the birth of a child.
b. A female person who is pregnant with or gives birth to a child except when someone else has legal rights to the child.
c. A person who adopts a child.
d. A person who raises a child.
2. An ancestor; a progenitor.
3. An organism that produces or generates offspring.
4. A guardian; a protector.
5. A parent company.
6. A source or cause; an origin: Despair is the parent of rebellion.
v. par·ent·ed, par·ent·ing, par·ents
v.tr.
1. To act as a parent to; raise and nurture: "A genitor who does not parent the child is not its parent" (Ashley Montagu).
2. To cause to come into existence; originate.
v.intr.
To act as a parent.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin parēns, parent-, from past active participle of parere, to give birth; see perə- in Indo-European roots.]
par′ent·hood′ n.
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parent
(ˈpɛərənt)n
1. a father or mother
2. a person acting as a father or mother; guardian
3. (Anthropology & Ethnology) rare an ancestor
4. a source or cause
5. (Biology)
a. an organism or organization that has produced one or more organisms or organizations similar to itself
b. (as modifier): a parent organism.
6. (Chemistry) physics chem
a. a precursor, such as a nucleus or compound, of a derived entity
b. (as modifier): a parent nucleus; a parent ion.
7. (General Physics) physics chem
a. a precursor, such as a nucleus or compound, of a derived entity
b. (as modifier): a parent nucleus; a parent ion.
[C15: via Old French from Latin parens parent, from parere to bring forth]
ˈparenthood n
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par•ent
(ˈpɛər ənt, ˈpær-)n.
1. a father or a mother.
2. a source, origin, or cause.
3. any organism that produces another.
4. a precursor; progenitor.
adj. 5. being the original source.
6. pertaining to an organism, cell, or structure that produces another.
7. of or designating a corporation or other enterprise that owns controlling interests in one or more subsidiaries.
v.t. 8. to be or act as parent of.
[1375–1425; late Middle English (< Middle French) < Latin parent-, s. of parēns, n. use of present participle of parere to bring forth, breed]
par′ent•hood`, n.
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parent
- abdicate - Implies a giving up of sovereign power or the evasion of responsibility (as a parent).
- half blood - Relationship through only one parent.
- in loco parentis - Latin for "in the place of a parent."
- patrial - Means having the right to live in the UK through the British birth of a parent or grandparent.
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| Noun | 1. |  parent - a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardianfamily unit, family - primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family" adopter, adoptive parent - a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child empty nester - a parent whose children have grown up and left home begetter, father, male parent - a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father); "his father was born in Atlanta" filicide - a parent who murders his own son or daughter genitor - a natural father or mother female parent, mother - a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother); "the mother of three children" stepparent - the spouse of your parent by a subsequent marriage |
| 2. | parent - an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained | |
| Verb | 1. | parent - bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children" fledge - feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight cradle - bring up from infancy foster - bring up under fosterage; of children |
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parent
noun
1. father or mother, sire, progenitor, begetter, procreator, old (Austral. & N.Z. informal), patriarch Both her parents were killed in a car crash.
2. source, cause, author, root, origin, architect, creator, prototype, forerunner, originator, wellspring He is regarded as one of the parents of modern classical music.
verb
1. bring up, raise, look after, rear, nurture, be the parent of Some people are unwilling to parent a child with special needs.
Quotations
"Honour thy father and thy mother" Bible: Exodus
"Parents love their children more than children love their parents" Auctoritates Aristotelis
"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them" [Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance]
"The most difficult job in the world is not being President. It's being a parent" [Bill Clinton]
"Parents ... are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years" [Anthony Powell A Buyer's Market]
"They fuck you up, your Mum and Dad."
"They may not mean to, but they do."
"They fill you with the faults they had"
"And add some extra, just for you" [Philip Larkin This Be the Verse]
"The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children" [Clarence Darrow]
"Honour thy father and thy mother" Bible: Exodus
"Parents love their children more than children love their parents" Auctoritates Aristotelis
"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them" [Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance]
"The most difficult job in the world is not being President. It's being a parent" [Bill Clinton]
"Parents ... are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years" [Anthony Powell A Buyer's Market]
"They fuck you up, your Mum and Dad."
"They may not mean to, but they do."
"They fill you with the faults they had"
"And add some extra, just for you" [Philip Larkin This Be the Verse]
"The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children" [Clarence Darrow]
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parent
noun1. A person from whom one is descended:
Archaic: predecessor.
2. One that creates, founds, or originates:
3. A point of origination:
beginning, derivation, fount, fountain, fountainhead, mother, origin, provenance, provenience, root, rootstock, source, spring, well.
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Translations
أحَدُ الوالِدَينوالِدٌ أوْ وَالِدَةٌوالِد بالتَّبَنّي
rodič-kaosvojitel
forælderstedforælder
vanhempiemokasvattaaottovanhempisyntyperä
roditelj
szülõ
foreldri
親
아버지
gimdytojastėvų
audžumāteaudžutēvsmātetēvs
osvojiteľrodič
starši
förälder
พ่อหรือแม่
bố hoặc mẹ
parent
[ˈpɛərənt]C. CPD parent company N → casa f matriz
parent teacher association N → asociación f de padres de familia y profesores
parent teacher association N → asociación f de padres de familia y profesores
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
parent
n
→ Elternteil m; parents → Eltern pl; the duties of a parent → die elterlichen Pflichten; his father was his favourite parent → von seinen Eltern hatte er seinen Vater am liebsten
attr parent birds → Vogeleltern pl; parent plant → Mutterpflanze f; parent ship (Space) → Mutterschiff nt
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
parent
(ˈpeərənt) noun1. one of the two persons etc (one male and one female) who are jointly the cause of one's birth.
2. a person with the legal position of a mother or father eg by adoption.
ˈparentage (-tidʒ) noun family or ancestry. a man of unknown parentage.
parental (pəˈrentl) adjectiveparental responsibility.
ˈparenthood noun the state of being a parent.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
parent
→ والِدٌ أوْ وَالِدَةٌ rodič forælder Elternteil γονέας uno de los padres vanhempi parent roditelj genitore 親 아버지 ouder forelder rodzic pai родитель förälder พ่อหรือแม่ ebeveyn bố hoặc mẹ 父亲或母亲Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
par·ent
n. padre o madre; pl.
___ -s → padres.
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parent
n padre m, madre f; npl padres mpl; adoptive parents padres adoptivos; biologic parents padres biológicosEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.