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par·ent P0069200 (pâr′ənt, păr′-)n.1. a. A female person whose egg unites with a sperm or a male person whose sperm unites with an egg, resulting in the conception of a child or the birth of a child.b. A female person who is pregnant with or gives birth to a child except when someone else has legal rights to the child.c. A person who adopts a child.d. A person who raises a child.2. An ancestor; a progenitor.3. An organism that produces or generates offspring.4. A guardian; a protector.5. A parent company.6. A source or cause; an origin: Despair is the parent of rebellion.v. par·ent·ed, par·ent·ing, par·ents v.tr.1. To act as a parent to; raise and nurture: "A genitor who does not parent the child is not its parent" (Ashley Montagu).2. To cause to come into existence; originate.v.intr. To act as a parent.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin parēns, parent-, from past active participle of parere, to give birth; see perə- in Indo-European roots.]
par′ent·hood′ n.Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. | parented - having a parent or parents or cared for by parent surrogatesparentless, unparented - having no parent or parents or not cared for by parent surrogates |
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Related to parented: overprotective, patentedAntonyms for parentedadj having a parent or parents or cared for by parent surrogatesAntonyms |