| 单词 | parental |
| 释义 | parental (once / 1487 pages) adj Someone who's parental acts the way a typical mother or father does. A parental kindergarten teacher might pat students' heads and call them "sweetheart." You can use the adjective parental to describe a motherly or fatherly person, like your parental uncle who attends all your school plays. It also describes something generally related to parents — like parental leave, a work benefit that allows new parents to take some time off to care for their baby; or a parental advisory, which warns parents about the content of an audio recording. The Latin root of parental is parens, "father or mother." WORD FAMILYparental: parentally+/parent: parentage, parental, parented, parenthood, parenting, parentless, parents/parentage: parentages/parented: unparented USAGE EXAMPLESToward the end of her life, she questions whether her daughter is “doing what Avedon did” — creating an unforgiving parental portrait. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) Federal law only requires up to 12 weeks of unpaid parental leave for the majority of government and private-sector employees. Washington Times(Dec 29, 2016) In Seattle a misdemeanor malicious harassment law extends those protections to include gender identity, homelessness, marital status, political ideology, age and parental status. Seattle Times(Dec 16, 2016) 1adj relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent parental guidance Syn|Ant maternal, paternal filial relating to or characteristic of or befitting an offspring daughterlybefitting a daughter 2adj designating the generation of organisms from which hybrid offspring are produced Ant filial designating the generation or the sequence of generations following the parental generation |
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