Word: houseparents
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: house
par
ents
Definition: Plural of houseparent; a schoolmaster in charge of a boarding house, normally at a boarding school and especially at a public school
Morphemes:
Affix: house
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: The people who live in a house; a household.
Affix: parent
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child; a step-parent or adoptive parent.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: parentem
Language: la
Decoded: parentem
PoS: Noun
Meaning: parent
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form the plural of nouns that correctly take just an "s" in the plural. See greengrocer’s apostrophe.