Parent

Definitions

1. A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
   in-plural, often
2. A surname.
3. A person who has had a baby; this person in relation to their child or children.
   in-plural, often
4. A surrogate parent.
5. A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.
6. A relative.
   obsolete
7. The source or origin of something.
8. An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
9. Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
   attributive
10. A parent company.
    attributive
11. The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
12. The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.

Equivalents

31 more languages

العربيةالوالدوالد

Azərbaycan dilivalideyn

Българскии́зточникотглеждам

BosanskimepareRodićroditeljродитељ+ 2 more

Catalàmarepare

Češtinarodičrodičovskýzdroj

Ελληνικάγονέας

Suomikasvattaasyntyperävanhempi

Gàidhligpàrant

עבריתהורה

HrvatskimepareRodićroditeljродитељ+ 2 more

Հայերենաղբյուրծնող

Bahasa Indonesiabiangbonyokindukortu+ 1 more

日本語親

한국어어버이어이

Kurdîmaremêmepare+ 1 more

Latinaparenspater

Latviešuvecāki

Te Reo Māorimatua

Nederlandsbronouder

Polskirodzic

Русскийисточникпричинароди́тельроди́тельница+ 1 more

Ikinyarwandaumubyeyiumuvyeyi

СрпскиmepareRodićroditeljродитељ+ 2 more

Sesothomotswadi

Svenskapäron

Kiswahilimzazi

Setswanamotsadi

Türkçeebeveynveli

Українськабатьківськийродительродителька

Tiếng Việtme

Examples

“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 […]”

“The NHS is naturally pro-immunisation, reassuring parents that their babies can easily cope with these jabs.”

“It is time the international community faced the reality: we have⟳ an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land⟳ of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.”

“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.”

“The dinghy was trailing astern at the end⟳ of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw⟳ that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type⟳, with a blunt snout, and like⟳ the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.”

“The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve⟳ of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make⟳ it easy for all sorts of firms to generate⟳[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate⟳ the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.”

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