Parent

Noun

 * 1) One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father.
 * 2) A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child. (adoptive parent, foster parent)
 * 3)  An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
 * 4) The source or origin of something.
 * 5) A group from which another group is formed, or which completely controls a subordinate group. (parent company)
 * 6)  The object from which a child or derived object is descended.

Quotations

 * person from whom one is descended


 * i Prologue
 * From forth the fatal loins of these two foes / A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows / Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.
 * i 2
 * I thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated to closeness and the bettering of my mind with that, which, but by being so retir’d, O’er-priz’d all popular rate, in my false brother awak’d an evil nature; and my trust, like a good parent, did beget of him a falsehood.
 * 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:
 * 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:


 * source or origin


 * ii 3
 * Whereby I see that Time’s the king of men, He’s both their parent, and he is their grave.

Synonyms

 * progenitor
 * mother

Antonyms

 * child, offspring
 * child

Hyponyms

 * father, mother

Derived terms

 * parentage
 * parental
 * parenthood
 * parent company

Verb

 * 1) To act as parent, to raise or rear.

Derived terms

 * parenting

Thesaurus
agent, ancestor, ancestorial, ancestral, ancestress, author, begetter, beginner, catalyst, causer, creator, effector, engenderer, father, fatherlike, fatherly, generator, grandfatherly, grandmotherly, grandparent, grandparental, guardian, inspirer, instigator, maker, mater, materfamilias, maternal, mother, motherlike, motherly, mover, origin, originator, parental, pater, paterfamilias, paternal, patriarchal, prime mover, primum mobile, procreator, producer, progenitor, progenitress, progenitrix, root, sire, source, stepfather, stepmother

Etymology
parent from parent: from  parentem, accusative of parens:, present participle of parere "to breed, bring forth". Displaced native alder, aldor "parent" (from  ealdor "parent").

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/"p{r@nt/}}

Noun

 * Armenian: ծնող (çnoġ)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: generinto,  virgenerinto,  generintino
 * Estonian: vanemad
 * Finnish:
 * French:, géniteur, génitrice
 * German: Elternteil,  Elter
 * Greek: ,
 * Ido:,  genitorulo,  genitorino
 * Irish:
 * Italian: genitore, genitrice
 * Japanese:
 * Latgalian:, ,
 * Latin:


 * Latvian: vecāki, tēvs, māte
 * Lithuanian: tėvai
 * Luhya:
 * Old Provençal:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: genitur
 * Russian:, родительница
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tswana: (1/2)
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: pal,  hipal,  jipal


 * Armenian: ծնող (çnoġ)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek:
 * Irish:


 * Japanese: ;  養父母
 * Russian:, родительница
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: daoptan,  hidaoptan,  jidaoptan,  kälan,  hikälan,  jikälan


 * Armenian: ծնող (çnoġ)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * Japanese:
 * Russian:, родительница
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:


 * Armenian: աղբյուր (aġbyur)
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ophav
 * Dutch: ,


 * Finnish:
 * Japanese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swahili:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:


 * Finnish:
 * Japanese:


 * Dutch:


 * Japanese:


 * : ouer
 * : tud, kerent (only plural, otherwise use father or mother)
 * : родител (roditel) (1)
 * : pare, mare (parents in plural: pares )
 * : patro, patrino
 * : parent
 * : Elternteil
 * : הורה (hore), הורה (hora) , plural: הורים (horim) or , הורות (horot)
 * : genitoro
 * : foreldrar
 * : orangtua
 * : parente, genitor


 * : genitore
 * : 어버이 (eobeo-i), 부모 (bumo)
 * : orang tua
 * : parēns
 * : pai, mãe
 * : părinte
 * : starši (there are only 'parents' in Slovene, there is no singular form to it; if used in singular, we say 'father' oče or 'mother' mati, or very formally roditelj)
 * : padre, madre , origen
 * : förälder (1,2,3,4)
 * : ebeveyn

Verb

 * Finnish:

Anagrams

 * enrapt, entrap, panter, trepan

Noun

 * 1) parent, one’s father or mother
 * 2) any person to which one is related

Derived terms

 * parental
 * grand-parent

Etymology
From parens:.

Anagrams

 * arpent, râpent

Derived terms

 * parenté
 * parentage