parent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛə.ɹənt/
enpr: pâʹ-rənt
ipa: /ˈpɛɹ.ənt/
ipa: /ˈpæɹ.ənt/
enpr: pârʹ-ənt
enpr: părʹ-ənt
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈpa.reɳʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈpe-/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)ənt
rhymes: -æɹənt
Forms: form: parents
Etymology: From Middle English parent, borrowed from Anglo-Norman parent, Middle French parent, from Latin parentem, accusative of parēns (“parent”), present participle of pariō (“I breed, bring forth”).
Senses: examples: text: After both her parents were killed in a forest fire, Sonia was adopted by her aunt and uncle.
text: my trust / Like a good parent, 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.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: 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 […]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 9:19–20:
text: The NHS is naturally pro-immunisation, reassuring parents that their babies can easily cope with these jabs.
ref: 2005 August 24, Siobhan O'Neill, The Guardian:
text: 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 its parents than in other advanced countries.
ref: 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:
synonyms: genitor
progenitor
antonyms: child
offspring
glosses: A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
glosses: A person who has had a baby; this person in relation to their child or children.
glosses: A surrogate parent.
glosses: A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.
glosses: A relative.
examples: text: Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry.
ref: 1785, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia:
text: Indolence and unalimentary food are the parents of this disease; but to neither are Indians accustomed.
ref: 1789, The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, volume 68, page 341:
glosses: The source or origin of something.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
examples: text: 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 the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.
ref: 1944, Miles Burton, The Three Corpse Trick, chapter 5:
glosses: Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
examples: text: 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 the parent firm is domiciled.
ref: 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
glosses: Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
A parent company.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: mother
antonyms: child
glosses: The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.
Derived terms: adoptive parent
alloparent
authoritarian parent
authoritative parent
bioparent
birth parent
birthparent
buddy parent
co-parent
co-parent-in-law
cottage parent
curling parent
Disney parent
foreparent
foster parent
godparent
gold star parent
grandparent
guideparent
helicopter parent
heliparent
houseparent
interparent
iPad parent
merparent
midparent
misparented
multiparent
noncustodial parent
nonparent
omniparent
overparent
oversharent
parentage
parental
parent bug
parent company
parent compound
parentcraft
parentdom
parent drug
parentectomy
parentelic
parenter
parentese
parenthood
parenticide
parentification
parent-in-law
parentish
parentism
parentland
parent language
parentless
parentlike
parentlock
parently
parentness
parent nuclide
parent pointer tree
parentship
parent-teacher association
parent-teacher organization
parent-teacher-student association
parent-to-be
parent trigger
pawrent
permissive parent
pibling
plant parent
pollen parent
pre-parent
reparent
sharent
single parent
single-parent family
snowplow parent
solo parent
step-parent
stepparent
stereoparent
sugar parent
three-parent
transparent
underparent
uninvolved parent
unparent
Related terms: antepartum
parous
-parous
post-partum