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Parent

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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 guardian

2. parent

an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained

Verb

3. bring up, nurture, parent, raise, rear

bring up

Example Sentences:
'raise a family'
'bring up children'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Parent

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noun
1. 
a father or mother
2. 
a person acting as a father or mother; guardian
3. rare
an ancestor
4. 
a source or cause
5. 
a. 
an organism or organization that has produced one or more organisms or organizations similar to itself
b. 
(as modifier)
a parent organism
6. physics, chemistry
a. 
a precursor, such as a nucleus or compound, of a derived entity
b. 
(as modifier)
a parent nucleus
a parent ion

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Parent

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noun
1. 
a mother or father
2. 
a progenitor or ancestor
3. 
any animal, organism, or plant in relation to its offspring
4. 
anything from which other things are derived; source; origin
adjective
5.  US
designating a corporation in relation to a subsidiary that it owns and controls
6. 
designating anything in relation to something for which it is the source
other books based on this parent work
verb transitive, verb intransitive
7. 
to be or act as the parent (of)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Parent

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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.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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