Parent Definition

pârənt, păr-
parented, parenting, parents
noun
parents
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.
American Heritage Medicine
A mother or father.
Webster's New World
A female person who is pregnant with or gives birth to a child except when someone else has legal rights to the child.
American Heritage Medicine
A person who adopts a child.
American Heritage Medicine
A progenitor or ancestor.
Webster's New World
Antonyms:
verb
parenting
To act as a parent to; raise and nurture.
American Heritage
To be or act as the parent (of)
Webster's New World
To cause to come into existence; originate.
American Heritage
adjective
Designating a corporation in relation to a subsidiary that it owns and controls.
Webster's New World
Designating anything in relation to something for which it is the source.
Other books based on this parent work.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
other

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

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Parent

Noun

Singular:
parent
Plural:
parents

Origin of Parent

  • From Anglo-Norman parent, Middle French parent, from Latin parentem, accusative of parÄ“ns (“parent"), present participle of parere (“to breed, bring forth").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French from Latin parēns parent- from past active participle of parere to give birth perə-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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