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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishparent, borrowed fromAnglo-Normanparent,Middle Frenchparent, fromLatinparentem, accusative ofparēns(“parent”), present participle ofpariō(“I breed, bring forth”).

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parent (pluralparents)

  1. (often in theplural) Aperson whoraises achild (which they havemade,adopted,fostered, taken as their own, etc.).[from 15th c.]
    After both herparents were killed in a forest fire, Sonia was adopted by her aunt and uncle.
    • 1610–1611 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene ii]:
      my trust / Like a goodparent, 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.
    • 1611,The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […],→OCLC,John9:19–20:
      And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? Hisparents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind[…]
    • 2005 August 24, Siobhan O'Neill,The Guardian:
      The NHS is naturally pro-immunisation, reassuringparents that their babies can easily cope with these jabs.
    • 2013 June 7,Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume188, number26, page19:
      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 itsparents than in other advanced countries.
    Synonyms:genitor,progenitor
    Antonyms:child,offspring
    Hyponyms:father,mother
  2. (often in theplural) Aperson who has had ababy; this person in relation to theirchild orchildren.
  3. Asurrogate parent.
  4. A third person who has providedDNA samples in anIVF procedure in order toalterfaultygeneticmaterial.
  5. (obsolete) Arelative.[15th–18th c.]
  6. Thesource ororigin of something.[from 16th c.]
    • 1785,Thomas Jefferson,Notes on the State of Virginia:
      Misery is often theparent of the most affecting touches in poetry.
    • 1789,The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, volume68, page341:
      Indolence and unalimentary food are theparents of this disease; but to neither are Indians accustomed.
  7. (biology) Anorganism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.[from 17th c.]
  8. (attributive) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.[1]
    • 1944,Miles Burton,The Three Corpse Trick, chapter 5:
      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 theparent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.
    1. Aparent company.[from 20th c.]
      • 2013 June 22, “T time”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8841, page68:
        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 theparent firm is domiciled.
  9. (computing) The object from which achild orderived object is descended; anode superior to another node.[from 20th c.]
    Synonym:mother
    Antonym:child
  10. (physics) Thenuclide thatdecays into adaughter nuclide.

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person from whom one is descended
person who acts as a parent in rearing a child—see alsoguardian
biology: organism from which a plant or animal is biologically descended
source or origin of something
parent company—seeparent company
computing: object from which a child or derived object is descended
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Verb

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parent (third-person singular simple presentparents,present participleparenting,simple past and past participleparented)

  1. To act as parent, toraise orrear.
    Synonyms:raise,rear
    • 2006, Natalie Bandlow,Parent to Child the Guide: How to Create a Comprehensive And Meaningful Journal to Prepare Your Child for Life, iUniverse,→ISBN, page 1:
      However, even with money and caregivers, the child is left without a parent and most likely without a plan for their emotional, psychological, and spiritual well-being. A time will come when you will no longer be able toparent your child, period.
  2. (programming) To provide a parentobject for one or more other objects, which become thechildren.

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to act as parent

See also

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References

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  1. ^John A. Simpson andEdmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “parent”, inThe Compact Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, volumes II (P–Z, Supplement and Bibliography), Oxford:Clarendon Press, published1991,→ISBN, page1274.

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Etymology

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Inherited fromLatinparentem.

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Noun

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parent m (pluralparents,feminineparenta,feminine pluralparentes)

  1. relative(someone in the same family)

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French

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Etymology 1

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Inherited fromMiddle Frenchparent, fromOld Frenchparent, fromLatinparentem.

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parent m (pluralparents,feminineparente)

  1. relative,relation, family member
    Nous devons toujours être aux côtés de nosparents et de nos amis.
    We must always stand by ourfamily and our friends.
    • 1862,Victor Hugo, chapter4, inLes Misérables, Tome I : Fantine, book 1:
      Une de sesparentes éloignées, madame la comtesse de Lô, laissait rarement échapper une occasion d'énumérer en sa présence ce qu'elle appelait «les espérances» de ses trois fils.
      One of his distant relatives, the countess of Lô, rarely missed an opportunity to list, in his presence, what she called her "hopes" for her three sons.
  2. (North America, in thesingular)parent
  3. (in theplural)ancestors
  4. (especially in theplural)parents
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Adjective

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parent (feminineparente,masculine pluralparents,feminine pluralparentes)

  1. related
  2. similar
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

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parent

  1. third-personpluralpresentindicative/subjunctive ofparer

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Latin

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Etymology 1

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parent

  1. third-personpluralpresentactivesubjunctive ofparō

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pārent

  1. third-personpluralpresentactiveindicative ofpāreō

Middle French

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Etymology

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FromOld Frenchparent.

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parent m (pluralparens)

  1. parent

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Norman

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Etymology

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FromOld Frenchparent, fromLatinparēns,parentem, frompariō,parere(“bring forth, give birth to, produce”).

Noun

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parent m (pluralparents)

  1. (Guernsey)parent
    Hyponyms:mère,père

Old French

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Etymology

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FromLatinparēns, parentem.

Noun

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parentoblique singular, m (oblique pluralparenzorparentz,nominative singularparenzorparentz,nominative pluralparent)

  1. parent

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