Parent Definition

Contents

• 1 English
  • 1.1 Etymology
  • 1.2 Pronunciation
  • 1.3 Noun
    • 1.3.1 Quotations
    • 1.3.2 Synonyms
    • 1.3.3 Antonyms
    • 1.3.4 Hyponyms
    • 1.3.5 Derived terms
    • 1.3.6 Translations
  • 1.4 Verb
    • 1.4.1 Derived terms
    • 1.4.2 Translations
  • 1.5 See also
  • 1.6 Anagrams
• 2 French
  • 2.1 Etymology
  • 2.2 Pronunciation
  • 2.3 Noun
    • 2.3.1 Derived terms
  • 2.4 Verb
  • 2.5 Anagrams
• 3 Latin
  • 3.1 Verb
• 4 Old French
  • 4.1 Noun
    • 4.1.1 Derived terms

English

Etymology

Middle English parent from Old French parent from Latin parentem, accusative of parēns (“parent”), present participle of parere "to breed, bring forth". Displaced native Middle English alder, aldor "parent" (from Old English ealdor "parent").

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpærənt/, SAMPA: /"per@nt/

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Noun

parent (plural parents)

1. One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father.
2. A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child. (adoptive parent, foster parent)
3. (biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
4. The source or origin of something.
5. A group from which another group is formed, or which completely controls a subordinate group. (parent company)
6. (computing, object oriented computer programming) The object from which a child or derived object is descended.

Quotations

person from whom one is descended

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

Synonyms

• (person from whom one is descended): progenitor
• (computing: object from which a child is descended): mother

Antonyms

• (person from whom one is descended): child, offspring
• (computing: object from which a child is descended): child

Hyponyms

• (person from whom one is descended): father, mother

Derived terms

• parentage
• parental
• parenthood
• parent company

Verb

to parent (third-person singular simple present parents, present participle parenting, simple past and past participle parented)

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

Derived terms

• parenting

Translations

See also

• foster

Anagrams

• enrapt, entrap, panter, trepan

French

Etymology

From Latin parēns.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pa.ˈʁɑ̃/

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Noun

parent m. (plural parents)

1. parent, one’s father or mother
2. any person to which one is related

Derived terms

• parental
• grand-parent

Verb

parent

1. Third-person plural present indicative of parer.
2. Third-person plural present subjunctive of parer.

Anagrams

• arpent, râpent

Latin

Verb

parent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of parō.

Old French

Noun

parent m. (oblique plural parenz, nominative singular parenz, nominative plural parent)

1. parent

Derived terms

• parenté
• parentage

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