parent
/ˈpɛəɹənt/ noun A1- A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.). · After both her parents were killed in a forest fire, Sonia was adopted by her aunt and uncle.
- 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.
- The source or origin of something.
- An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
- Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
- A parent company.
Plural parents
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She said I was the worst-behaved girl she ever saw and that my parents ought to be ashamed of the way they had brought me up.
I’m so glad my parents had nice names.
It was pretty interesting to imagine things about them--to imagine that perhaps the girl who sat next to you was really the daughter of a belted earl, who had been stolen away from her parents in her infancy by a cruel nurse who died before she could confess.
Parents move with candles;
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