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PARENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("parent" is a kind of...):
being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)
Sense 2
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("parent" is a kind of...):
genitor (a natural father or mother)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parent"):
adopter; adoptive parent (a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child)
empty nester (a parent whose children have grown up and left home)
begetter; father; male parent (a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father))
filicide (a parent who murders his own son or daughter)
female parent; mother (a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother))
stepparent (the spouse of your parent by a subsequent marriage)
Holonyms ("parent" is a member of...):
family; family unit (primary social group; parents and children)
Antonym:
child (a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age)
Derivation:
parent (look after a child until it is an adult)
parental (relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent)
parental (designating the generation of organisms from which hybrid offspring are produced)
parenthood (the state of being a parent)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Look after a child until it is an adult
Example:
bring up children
Synonyms:
bring up; nurture; parent; raise; rear
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Cause:
grow up (become an adult)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "parent"):
fledge (feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight)
cradle (bring up from infancy)
foster (bring up under fosterage; of children)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
parent (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)
parentage (the descendants of one individual)
parentage (the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents)
parentage (the state of being a parent)
Context examples:
The sodium salt of camptothecin is more water-soluble than the parent molecule.
(Camptothecin Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)
The truth is there is more than one "right" way to be a good parent.
(Parenting, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)
To me, she was in the place of a parent.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
The parent document remains content is unaltered.
(Addendum, NCI Thesaurus)
The children have at least one parent with asthma or allergies, placing them at high risk for developing asthma.
(Infant Exposure to Allergens May Help Prevent Wheezing, NIH)
Children start to become more independent from their parents.
(Child Development, NIH)
And no time is so beautiful and precious to parents as the first years of the little lives given to them to train.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Because of its single-chain structure, CC-49/218 sFv may exhibit a longer half-life than the parent monoclonal antibody CC-49; 218 represents the linker sequence that helps reduce aggregation and proteolysis of this agent.
(CC-49/218 sFv, NCI Thesaurus)
You well know, Victor, that our union had been the favourite plan of your parents ever since our infancy.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
In general, concepts above a given concept are referred to as superconcepts or parents and those below as subconcepts or children.
(NCI Thesaurus Concept, NCI Thesaurus)
