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parent

noun
/ˈpɛəɹənt/UK/ˈpɛːɹənt//ˈpɛəɹənt/US

Etymology

From Middle English parent, borrowed from Anglo-Norman parent, Middle French parent, from Latin parentem, accusative of parēns (“parent”), present participle of pariō (“to breed, bring forth”).

  1. derived from parentem
  2. derived from parent
  3. derived from parent
  4. inherited from parent

Definitions

  1. A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own,…

    A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).

    • After both her parents were killed in a forest fire, Sonia was adopted by her aunt and uncle.
    • my trust / Like a good parent, did beget of him / A falsehood in it's contrarie, as great / As my trust was, which had indeede no limit, / A confidence sans bound.
    • And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind […]

  2. A person who has had a baby

    A person who has had a baby; this person in relation to their child or children.

  3. A surrogate parent.

  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty…

      A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.

    2. A relative.

    3. The source or origin of something.

      • Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry.
      • Indolence and unalimentary food are the parents of this disease; but to neither are Indians accustomed.

    4. An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.

    5. Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.

    6. The object from which a child or derived object is descended

      The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.

    7. The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.

    8. To act as parent, to raise or rear.

    9. To provide a parent object for one or more other objects, which become the children.

    10. A surname.

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Derived

adoptive parent, alloparent, bioparent, birthparent, birth parent, buddy parent, co-parent, co-parent-in-law, cottage parent, curling parent, Disney parent, foreparent, foster parent, godparent, gold star parent, grandparent, guideparent, helicopter parent, heliparent, houseparent, interparent, iPad parent, merparent, midparent, misparented, multiparent, noncustodial parent, nonparent, omniparent, overparent, oversharent, parentage, parental, parent bug, parent company, parent compound, parentcraft, parentdom, parent drug, parentectomy · +46 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at parent. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01parent02surrogate03deputy04office05ceremonial06etiquette07life08biological09consanguinity10consanguineous

A definitional loop anchored at parent. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at parent

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA