parent1 nounparent2 verb
parentpar‧ent1 /ˈpeərənt $ ˈper-/ ●●● S1 W1 noun [countable] 
WORD ORIGINparent
Origin:
1400-1500 Old French, Latin, present participle of parere ‘to give birth to’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- I'd like you to meet my parents sometime.
- The airline's parent, AMR Corp., lost $115 million in the first nine months.
- All these children are mutant children of the same parent, differing from their parent with respect to one gene each.
- Margaret shows the 13 parents how to make things and they show their children.
- Once, after he had been absent a fortnight, the principal tackled his parents.
- Panic-stricken parents, their faces twisted in fear, ran to the school and frantically searched for their sons or daughters.
- Some parents will terminate contact with the therapist because they do not understand why certain questions are being asked.
- To me, it was normal to have parents who worked and were devoted to their children.
- Yet parents above all need those congenial working conditions if they are to parent well.
Longman Language Activatora group of people who are related to each other
a group of people who are related to each other, especially a mother, father, and their children all living together: · He comes from a family of eight children.· A lot of the families living in this area are very poor.member of a family: · Pearl is the last surviving member of her family.the Armstrong/Mitchell/Jones family (=the family with this name): · Various members of the Kennedy family were at the funeral.immediate family (=your closest relatives): · Only her immediate family knew she had heart disease.nuclear family (=a family consisting of a mother, a father, and their children): · Having an intact nuclear family does not guarantee that a child will turn out well.extended family (=including cousins, grandparents etc): · My extended family usually gets together at holidays.one-parent family/single-parent family (=a family in which there is only one parent): · Single-parent families are much more common these days.big/large/small family: · I grew up in a large family in the South.· The cost of sending kids to college - even for a small family - is extremely high.
someone's mother and father: · Do you get on well with your parents?· Parents need to become more involved in their children's school activities.
informal your family, especially your parents: · She's gone back home to see her folks.· My folks were waiting for me at the station.
the type of family and social class that you grew up in: · Most of his friends were from similar middle-class backgrounds.· In our class we have children of all different religious and ethnic backgrounds.
WORD SETSbaby, nounbarrier method, nounbetrothal, nounboy, nounBr., branch, nouncontraception, nouncousin, noundescendant, noundescent, noundistant, adjectivedivorce, noundivorce, verbdivorced, adjectivedivorcée, noundomestic, adjectivedowry, noundynasty, nounex, nounextended family, nounfamilial, adjectivefamily man, nounfamily planning, nounfamily tree, nounfather, nounfather-in-law, nounfiancé, nounfiancée, nounfilial, adjectivefirst cousin, noungodchild, noungoddaughter, noungrandad, noungrandaddy, noungrandchild, noungranddad, noungranddaddy, noungranddaughter, noungrandfather, noungrandma, noungrandmother, noungrandpa, noungrandparent, noungrandson, noungranny, nounhalf-brother, nounhalf-sister, nounhereditary, adjectivehouse husband, nounin-laws, nounintermarry, verbmaiden aunt, nounmaid of honour, nounmam, nounmama, nounmamma, nounmammy, nounman, nounmarital, adjectivematrimony, nounmiscegenation, nounmixed marriage, nounmonogamy, nounnuclear family, nounoedipal, adjectiveOedipus complex, nounone-parent family, nounparent, nounparentage, nounparental, adjectiveparenthood, nounparenting, nounpaternity, nounpaternity suit, nounpatriarch, nounpatriarchy, nounpedigree, nounpolygamy, nounpropinquity, nounproposal, nounrelative, nounscion, nounseparate, verbseparated, adjectiveseparation, nounsibling, nounsingle parent, nounsister, nounsister-in-law, nounstepbrother, nounstepchild, nounstepdaughter, nounstepfather, nounstepmother, nounstepsister, nounstepson, noununcle, noununion, noununmarried, adjectiveupbringing, nounwedding, nounwedlock, nounwhite wedding, nounwidow, nounwidower, nounwidowhood, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + parent
plans to force absent fathers to pay child maintenance a lone-parent family the confidence he had gained from having a warm and loving family
(also a lone parent British English) (=someone who has their children living with them, but no partner)· My mum is a single parent.
· Most children are reared by their natural parents.
(=the ones who are biologically related to them)· Only half the children who are adopted wish to discover their birth parents.
(=their biological parents)· I was thrilled to have found my real parents.
(=the people who take someone else's child into their home and legally become his or her parents)· Adoptive parents often have little practical preparation for parenthood.
(=someone who has other people's children living with them)· Teresa was removed from her mother's care and placed with foster parents.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES plans to force absent fathers to pay child maintenance (=the one that owns or controls a smaller one)
(=an event at a school, at which parents meet and talk to their children's teachers)· It was parents' evening at her son's school.
· One in seven families is a one-parent family.
a lone-parent family the confidence he had gained from having a warm and loving family (=people who may have a child in the future. Also used to mean people who may send their child to a particular school.)· Adoption is more complicated than many prospective parents believe.· Prospective parents are welcome to visit the school at any time.
· Mark is the proud father of a three-week-old baby boy.
· A family crisis can adversely affect the developing parent-child relationship.
· Speaking as a medical man, I'd advise you to take some exercise every day.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Judith Mellor's elderly parents have already attracted the Minister's fury -by publicly criticising him over the Antonia de Sancha affair.· People are becoming increasingly faced with having some responsibility for the care of their elderly parents or relatives.· He blamed his shyness and gauche manner on his upbringing, as the only child of elderly parents.· One main challenge during the midlife years may be taking care of elderly parents.· Ianthe was the only child of elderly parents, who seemed to be a whole generation removed from those of her contemporaries.· Anytime / anyplace work can be ideal for those needing to care for children or elderly parents.· He was accompanied by 18 members of his family, including his wife Kulsoom, his three children and his elderly parents.· How can you help your elderly parent reduce the risks?
· On that occasion, they returned to Berkeley with a coachload of other would-be foster parents empty-handed.· With support and training, his foster parents can learn to work with him successfully.· He felt an enormous sense of gratification mixed with affection for his two foster parents.· The survey also found that a quarter of foster parents had received no written information on the Act.· By then, the girl had been put into the temporary care of foster parents by Wirral Council.· The eight-month-old baby is recovering with Middlesbrough foster parents following the operation to remove water from the brain.· His foster parents say they're giving him a break from events back home.· It was the loveliest day imaginable now that she knew the name of Angel's foster parents.
· More than half of lone parents with two or more children had incomes below their absolute poverty level at £227 a week.· Consumer durables Lone parent families are less likely than two parent families to have household consumer durables.· Thirdly, we must consider further ways to assist lone parents.· Two thirds of lone parent families depend mainly on social security benefits, compared with one in eight two parent families.· The majority of lone parents become so as the result of separation, divorce or death.· The most vulnerable were full-time students over 19; students from lower social classes; lone parents and couples with children.
· Under the supplementary benefit system, single parents could earn additional income and only part of this was offset against their benefit.· Historically, the single parent has been the norm in no society, but patriarchal linear life is now economically over.· She was a single parent and had a nine-year-old son, Darren, who was in a home for mentally handicapped children.· It was simple this way, to be the single parent of an only child.· Examiner contributor Elva Yanez is a single parent living in Albany.· And benefit changes make it easier for more families - including single parents - to combine work and family responsibilities.· A single parent with two or three children in California would lose $ 1 in income.
NOUN· For adopted children that quest may include tracing their natural or birth parents.· Adopted children and birth parents are registering at Web archives with hopes of making matches.· After that they are free to carry out the search for their birth parents.· Allowing birth parents to express their emotions can be an important part of confronting their grief.· None of the children wanted to go and live with their birth parents, but simply to keep contact.· Attempts at reuniting them with their birth parents will have failed.· Tracing birth parents Having obtained their original birth certificate, adoptees can start tracing their birth parents.
· Less dramatic were changes in company ownership following changes in a parent company.· It is a complicated saga which is still unravelling, with the former parent company, Alan Paul, now in liquidation.· Often subsidiaries are required to guarantee or give charges in support of borrowings by the parent company or other companies in the group.· Beauty features highlight another problem which can arise if the parent company is based abroad.· Newhouse is the owner of Knopf's parent company.· Today, after 150 years in business, Smith & Wesson is up for sale by its parent company.
· Health and infant mortality 7 Children under five How many live with both parents or in a one parent family?· Priority for assistance will be given to senior citizens, disabled and single parent families.· Consumer durables Lone parent families are less likely than two parent families to have household consumer durables.· In common with families in general, one parent families have been getting smaller.· Only about 2 % nationally of single parent families are thought to be headed by the father.· Table Number of lone parents by type Percentage changes in the numbers of one parent families, 1976-1986, Great Britain.· This compared with 10 percent of two parent families with dependent children.
VERB· Such characteristics inevitably help to shape parent reactions, which in turn affect the child's adjustment.· We view skin-to-skin care as a major advance in helping parents develop a closer tie to their infant.· Education secretary John Patten says the tables will help parents choose the best schools.· We also believe that certain settings and certain kinds of support can help parents form these bonds and nurture their children successfully.· Returning home from one such expedition, I couldn't help remembering how my parents entertained their circle in Hull.· Black militants came to Ocean Hill-Brownsville from around the city to help mobilize parents and press the racial agenda.· It is possible to help parents draw up two lists.· The narratives help parents become conscious of the negative and positive traditions passed down through the generations.
· Having to choose between living with their parents or getting married, most young women used to opt for marriage.· Scott spent his early childhood living with his parents in a one-room shack in a rural area outside of Tacoma.· Life at home was good, I had become used to living with my parents, and gradually I integrated at school.· The 21 % of dependent children living in lone-parent households has trebled from the 7 % in 1972.· Her father had died long before, leaving behind a childless aunt who had lived with her parents.· Until then, he had lived with his parents at their home in Princes Risborough.
· We will teach it to love as we its parents purely everlasting.· Their search in no way means that they are dissatisfied with their adopted home or love their adopted parents any the less.· Be assured, if that child loved his parents at all, that an engram exists here.· McCarthy was a lucky child, privileged and loved by beautiful parents.· Any loving parent can raise a boy or girl.· How could I commit such an offence when I really do love my parents so much?· My loving parents are determining my future, with only my best interests at heart.
· Home-school contracts will tell parents exactly what the school undertakes to deliver and what their responsibilities are.· She told me she is going to tell my parents that I was there, too.· What tales would Anna have told her parents about her?· Totally distraught, Amy told her parents.· He didn't tell Anthony that his parents had paid for his travels.· His parents told my parents, who are divorced.· What could I tell the parents about the national curriculum?· No one tells parents what really to expect in the first parenting months, but it is wild exhilaration and exhaustion.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► bride-/husband-/parent- etc to-be► noncustodial parent/father/mother
1the father or mother of a person or animal: - Adopted children and their biological parents may suffer stress long after the adoption. 4.
- It's now estimated that by 2010, children in stepfamilies will actually outnumber those living with two biological parents.
- Most of the debate was really about an alleged universality of the nuclear family of married biological parents and their legitimate children.
- My biological father is diagnosed as paranoid / schizophrenic.
- Or now, when they swear their biological father forced them to make the whole story up?
- Steven Lowe, Liverpool Who would be the biological parents of a human clone, and what legal ramifications would this have?
- The hearing would decide whether the state should terminate the rights of the biological parents and put the child up for adoption.
- The two candidates for the role of biological father were both Black Panthers.
- By then, the girl had been put into the temporary care of foster parents by Wirral Council.
- His foster parents say they're giving him a break from events back home.
- News of the deal caused outrage in Britain, and Flintshire social services placed the girls with foster parents.
- On that occasion, they returned to Berkeley with a coachload of other would-be foster parents empty-handed.
- Richard had been passed from one set of foster parents to another until he was ten.
- The children went into voluntary care in June 1991 and were placed together with foster parents.
- The girl, who was with foster parents, wanted her family re-united.
- The sisters were separated, Lore working as a maid and the others going to foster parents.
- More than half of lone parents with two or more children had incomes below their absolute poverty level at £227 a week.
- One Parent Benefit is paid to 75% of lone parents.
- Sheila is a lone parent with two children, aged 13 and 15.
- Two thirds of lone parent families depend mainly on social security benefits, compared with one in eight two parent families.
- We can treat lone parents as poor people, needing means-tested social assistance of some sort - as we do now.
Children under 14 should be accompanied by a parent. The eggs are guarded by both parents. Melissa’s spending the weekend at her parents’ house. → birth parent, → foster parents at foster2(3), → lone parent at lone(2), → one-parent family, single parent2something that produces other things of the same type: New shoots appear near the parent plant.3a company which owns a smaller company or organization: Land Rover’s new parentCOLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + parenta single parent (also a lone parent British English) (=someone who has their children living with them, but no partner)· My mum is a single parent.somebody's biological/natural parents· Most children are reared by their natural parents.somebody's birth parents (=the ones who are biologically related to them)· Only half the children who are adopted wish to discover their birth parents.somebody's real parents (=their biological parents)· I was thrilled to have found my real parents.adoptive parents (=the people who take someone else's child into their home and legally become his or her parents)· Adoptive parents often have little practical preparation for parenthood.a foster parent (=someone who has other people's children living with them)· Teresa was removed from her mother's care and placed with foster parents.parent1 nounparent2 verb
parentparent2 verb [intransitive, transitive] COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES plans to force absent fathers to pay child maintenance a lone-parent family the confidence he had gained from having a warm and loving family
plans to force absent fathers to pay child maintenance (=the one that owns or controls a smaller one)
(=an event at a school, at which parents meet and talk to their children's teachers)· It was parents' evening at her son's school.
· One in seven families is a one-parent family.
a lone-parent family the confidence he had gained from having a warm and loving family (=people who may have a child in the future. Also used to mean people who may send their child to a particular school.)· Adoption is more complicated than many prospective parents believe.· Prospective parents are welcome to visit the school at any time.
· Mark is the proud father of a three-week-old baby boy.
· A family crisis can adversely affect the developing parent-child relationship.
· Speaking as a medical man, I'd advise you to take some exercise every day.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► bride-/husband-/parent- etc to-be► noncustodial parent/father/mother
to look after your child and help them to develop well and learn how to behave: - Adopted children and their biological parents may suffer stress long after the adoption. 4.
- It's now estimated that by 2010, children in stepfamilies will actually outnumber those living with two biological parents.
- Most of the debate was really about an alleged universality of the nuclear family of married biological parents and their legitimate children.
- My biological father is diagnosed as paranoid / schizophrenic.
- Or now, when they swear their biological father forced them to make the whole story up?
- Steven Lowe, Liverpool Who would be the biological parents of a human clone, and what legal ramifications would this have?
- The hearing would decide whether the state should terminate the rights of the biological parents and put the child up for adoption.
- The two candidates for the role of biological father were both Black Panthers.
- By then, the girl had been put into the temporary care of foster parents by Wirral Council.
- His foster parents say they're giving him a break from events back home.
- News of the deal caused outrage in Britain, and Flintshire social services placed the girls with foster parents.
- On that occasion, they returned to Berkeley with a coachload of other would-be foster parents empty-handed.
- Richard had been passed from one set of foster parents to another until he was ten.
- The children went into voluntary care in June 1991 and were placed together with foster parents.
- The girl, who was with foster parents, wanted her family re-united.
- The sisters were separated, Lore working as a maid and the others going to foster parents.
- More than half of lone parents with two or more children had incomes below their absolute poverty level at £227 a week.
- One Parent Benefit is paid to 75% of lone parents.
- Sheila is a lone parent with two children, aged 13 and 15.
- Two thirds of lone parent families depend mainly on social security benefits, compared with one in eight two parent families.
- We can treat lone parents as poor people, needing means-tested social assistance of some sort - as we do now.
We help people to parent their children more effectively.