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parent

Definition for parent

noun as in person, source of product

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After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.

Tinder and OkCupid are both owned by IAC, the parent company of The Daily Beast.

To be a parent is to be able to offer truly unconditional love.

Not even after its parent company, the Soviet Union, took a dive in 1991.

At least one parent would have to be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.

"I'm afraid I couldn't quite manage that, my dear boy," your fond parent would respond.

He paused; and hastily wrote a few lines, to say that parent still lived, and would yet proclaim himself with honour to the world.

I betray my beloved parent's confidence, to save you from a certain and ignominious death.

In some states he becomes the heir of the adopted parent like a natural child, with some limitations.

The fibre can be separated with great facility, though firmly attached at one end to the parent rock.

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On this page you'll find 62 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to parent, such as: father, mother, ancestor, architect, author, and begetter.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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