parent
/ˈpɛəɹənt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.57 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
noun
noun
A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.
noun
An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
Example Sentences
- "After both her parents were killed in a forest fire, Sonia was adopted by her aunt and uncle."
- "my trust / Like a good parent, did beget of him / A falsehood in it's contrarie, as great / As my trust was, which had indeede no limit, / A confidence sans bound."
- "And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind […]"
- "The NHS is naturally pro-immunisation, reassuring parents that their babies can easily cope with these jabs."
- "It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries."
- "Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry."
Etymology
From Middle English parent, borrowed from Anglo-Norman parent, Middle French parent, from Latin parentem, accusative of parēns (“parent”), present participle of pariō (“to breed, bring forth”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *per-, parent, parentem
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpɛəɹənt/
- British English: /ˈpɛəɹənt/