parent

Meaning

Noun

1. (in-plural, often) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
2. (in-plural, often) A person who has had a baby; this person in relation to their child or children.
3. A surrogate parent.
4. A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.
5. (obsolete) A relative.
6. The source or origin of something.
7. An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
8. (attributive) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
9. (attributive) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
10. The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
11. The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.

Verb

1. To act as parent, to raise or rear.
2. To provide a parent object for one or more other objects, which become the children.

Opposite of

child, offspring

Synonyms

mother

👩‍🍼

father

👨‍👦

parents

progenitor

relative

source

begetter

origin

sire

mum

bring up

guardian

forefather

nurture

mater

elder

raise

rear

dam

maintain

major

mama

mamma

mammy

matrix

mom

👩‍🍼

momma

mommy

👩‍🍼

mummy

native

nurse

older

old lady

old woman

origination

overhaul

papa

👨‍👦

parent body

parent company

people

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

predecessors

primogenitor

prince

🤴

protector

rise

senior

service

shepherd

sower

spring

Translations

parent

genitore

ouder

Elternteil

pai

👨‍👦

padre

👨‍👦

pare

👨‍👦

padre

👨‍👦

Eltern

parens

mãe

👩‍🍼

parents

père

👨‍👦

Elter

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpæɹ.ənt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: parent

In summary

From Middle English parent, borrowed from Anglo-Norman parent, Middle French parent, from Latin parentem, accusative of parēns (“parent”), present participle of pariō (“I breed, bring forth”).