parent
A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
Noun 4 meanings
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.
Verb 2 meanings
To act as parent, to raise or rear.
To provide a parent object for one or more other objects, which become the children.
Etymology
From Middle English parent, borrowed from Anglo-Norman parent, Middle French parent, from Latin parentem, accusative of parēns (“parent”), present participle of pariō (“to breed, bring forth”).
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PARENT at a glance
PARENT has 6 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (P 3 + A 1 + R 1 + E 1 + N 1 + T 1) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,578 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with parent
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- PATENT8
- PARENS8
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