parent

Plural: parents

Noun

• a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian
• an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained
• A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
• A person who has had a baby; this person in relation to their child or children.
• A surrogate parent.
• A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.
• A relative.
• The source or origin of something.
• An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
• Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
• Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
• A parent company.
• The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
• The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.

Verb

Verb Forms: parented, parenting, parents

• To act as a parent; to raise and nurture offspring.
• bring up
• To act as parent, to raise or rear.
• To provide a parent object for one or more other objects, which become the children.

Examples

• After both her parents were killed in a forest fire, Sonia was adopted by her aunt and uncle.
• Experienced players parent their strategy, guiding younger players to better word choices.

Synonyms

bring up, nurture, raise, rear, genitor, mother, progenitor

Antonyms

child, offspring

Related Words

-parous, antepartum, foster, parous, post-partum