parent

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person's mother or father.

   Both of her parents came to watch the school play.

2. 2
   verb

   To raise and care for a child.

   It is not easy to parent a teenager while working full time.

3. 3
   noun

   The thing that something else comes from or grows out of.

   Curiosity is often the parent of great discoveries.

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”).

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