parent
/ˈpɛrənt/
noun
- A person's father or mother.
- Being a parent is a rewarding but challenging job.
- He asked his parent for permission to go on the trip.
- Both of her parents came to the school play.
- An animal or plant that produces offspring or seeds.
- This flower is a hybrid of two different parent plants.
- The parent bird feeds its chicks in the nest.
- The puppy looks just like its parent.
- An organization or company that owns or controls another.
- Our local store is owned by a large parent corporation.
- The subsidiary reports to its parent every quarter.
- The parent company announced a merger with a rival firm.
- A source or origin of something.
- The parent idea for the project came from a student.
- Latin is the parent language of many modern European languages.
- Ancient Greece is often called the parent of Western civilization.
verb
- To act as a parent to; to raise and care for (a child).
- They are learning how to parent their newborn baby.
- She parents her children with patience and love.
- It takes a village to parent a child well.