Meaning of PARENT
| Pronunciation: | | 'pehrunt
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- [n] 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
- [v] bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children"
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| | Synonyms: | | bring up, nurture, raise, rear |
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| | Antonyms: | | child, kid | | |
| | See Also: | | adopter, adoptive parent, begetter, cradle, family, family unit, father, female parent, fledge, foster, genitor, grow up, male parent, mother, stepparent | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Par"ent\, n. [L. parens, -entis; akin to parere to bring
forth; cf. Gr. ? to give, beget: cf. F. parent. Cf. {Part}.]
1. One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a
mother.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord. --Eph. vi.
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2. That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as,
idleness is the parent of vice.
Regular industry is the parent of sobriety.
--Channing.
{Parent cell}. (Biol.) See {Mother cell}, under {Mother},
also {Cytula}.
{Parent nucleus} (Biol.), a nucleus which, in cell division,
divides, and gives rise to two or more daughter nuclei.
See {Karyokinesis}, and {Cell division}, under {Division}.
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| Computing Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | (Or "mother", "precedessor") In a tree, a node which points to at least one daughter node. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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