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Word: parent (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A group from which another group is formed, or which completely controls a subordinate group. (''parent company'')
  • A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child. (''adoptive parent'', ''foster parent'')
  • biology An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
  • computing|object oriented computer programming The object from which a child or derived object is descended.
  • One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father.
  • The source or origin of something.

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Verb:

  • To act as parent, to raise or rear.

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