| 单词 | parent |
| 释义 | parent (once / 63 pages) nv A parent is a mother or father. Your mom and your dad are your parents, and one of their jobs is to parent you. We're all born to parents, and many of us also have step parents, foster parents, or adoptive parents who parent us. You might also use parent to talk about plants and animals; maybe your new puppy's parents were dog show champions, for example. Things that act as the source or owner of something else are also parents, like a parent company that owns the local bookshop. The Latin root is parere, "give birth to, produce." WORD FAMILYparent: parentage, parental, parented, parenthood, parenting, parentless, parents+/parentage: parentages/parental: parentally/parented: unparented USAGE EXAMPLESAs the number of pediatric medical users grows, so do issues that confront parents, patients, doctors and policymakers. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Dear Carolyn: My brother is 33 and still lives at home with our parents. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) First-time parents are often nervous about exposing their baby to the world. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) 1n a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian Ant|Exp|Hypo|Hyper child, kid a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age Blessed Virgin the mother of Jesus; Christians refer to her as the Virgin Mary; she is especially honored by Roman Catholics Naomithe mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament adopter, adoptive parent a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child empty nestera parent whose children have grown up and left home begetter, father, male parenta male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) filicidea parent who murders his own son or daughter female parent, mothera woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother) stepparentthe spouse of your parent by a subsequent marriage dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa, popan informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk father-in-lawthe father of your spouse ma, mama, mamma, mammy, mom, momma, mommy, mum, mummyinformal terms for a mother materan informal use of the Latin word for mother; sometimes used by British schoolboys or used facetiously mother-in-lawthe mother of your spouse old manan informal term for your father pateran informal use of the Latin word for father; sometimes used by British schoolboys or used facetiously para I, primipara(obstetrics) woman who has been delivered of a child for the first time puerperaa woman in childbirth or shortly thereafter quadripara(obstetrics) woman who has given birth to a viable infant in each of four pregnancies quintipara(obstetrics) woman who has given birth to a viable infant in each of five pregnancies stepfatherthe husband of your mother by a subsequent marriage stepmotherthe wife of your father by a subsequent marriage supermoman informal term for a mother who can combine childcare and full-time employment surrogate mothera woman who bears a child for a couple where the wife is unable to do so genitor a natural father or mother 2n an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained Hyper being, organism a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently 3v bring up Syn|Hypo bring up, nurture, raise, rear fledge feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight cradlebring up from infancy fosterbring up under fosterage; of children |
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