parent
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[edit] Etymology
From Old French parent, from Latin parēns (“‘parent’”).
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- IPA: /ˈpærənt/, SAMPA: /"per@nt/
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parent (plural parents)
- One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father.
- A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child. (adoptive parent, foster parent)
- (biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
- The source or origin of something.
- A group from which another group is formed, or which completely controls a subordinate group. (parent company)
- (computing, object oriented computer programming) The object from which a child or derived object is descended.
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- person from whom one is descended
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- 1597, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet i Prologue
- From forth the fatal loins of these two foes / A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows / Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.
- From forth the fatal loins of these two foes / A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;
- 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest i 2
- I thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated to closeness and the bettering of my mind with that, which, but by being so retir’d, O’er-priz’d all popular rate, in my false brother awak’d an evil nature; and my trust, like a good parent, did beget of him a falsehood.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version), John 9:19–20
- 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:
- source or origin
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- 1608, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre ii 3
- Whereby I see that Time’s the king of men, He’s both their parent, and he is their grave.
[edit] Synonyms
- (person from whom one is descended): progenitor
- (computing: object from which a child is descended): mother
[edit] Antonyms
- (person from whom one is descended): child, offspring
- (computing: object from which a child is descended): child
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person from whom one is descended
person who acts as a parent in rearing a child
biology: organism from which a plant or animal is biologically descended
source or origin of something
group from which another group is formed
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to parent (third-person singular simple present parents, present participle parenting, simple past and past participle parented)
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parent m. (plural parents)

