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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.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Parents
the spiritual relationship between godparents, or between them and the actual parents of a child.
1. the f act or condition of being a son or daughter.
2. the relation of child to parent, especially father.
2. the relation of child to parent, especially father.
1. the killing of one’s mother.
2. a person who has killed his mother. — matricidal, adj.
2. a person who has killed his mother. — matricidal, adj.
1. the behavior of a parent.
2. the assumption by a nonparent of superior authority over a child; paternalism.
2. the assumption by a nonparent of superior authority over a child; paternalism.
Archaic. the performance of funeral rituals for one’s parents.
the crime of parricide.
1. the act of killing one’s parent or other close relative.
2. a person who has killed his parent. — parricidal, adj.
2. a person who has killed his parent. — parricidal, adj.
1. the killing of one’s father.
2. a person who has killed his father. — patricidal, adj.
2. a person who has killed his father. — patricidal, adj.
-Ologies & -Isms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
Translations
rodiče
forældre
gepatroj
vanhemmat
roditelji
szülők
両親
부모
föräldrar
พ่อแม่
bố mẹ
parents
→ وَالِدَينِ rodiče forældre Eltern γονείς padres vanhemmat parents roditelji genitori 両親 부모 ouders foreldre rodzice pais родители föräldrar พ่อแม่ ebeveynler bố mẹ 双亲Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
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