Parent | Mean of parent in English Dictionary

/ˈperənt/

• Noun
• a person who is a father or mother
1. My parents live in New York.
2. They recently became parents. = They're new parents.
3. The form must be signed by a parent or guardian of the child.
4. A few of us are single parents. [=parents who live with a child or children and no husband, wife, or partner]
5. my adoptive parents [=the people who adopted me]
6. The organization helps people who were adopted find their birth/biological parents. [=their natural parents]
7. They'd like to become foster parents. [=people who volunteer to care for a child who is not their biological child]
• an animal or plant that produces a young animal or plant
1. The parent brings food to the chicks.
2. the parent bird
3. The new plant will have characteristics of both parent plants.
• something out of which another thing has developed
1. Latin is the parent language of several languages, including Italian, Spanish, and French.

• a company or organization that owns and controls a smaller company or organization
1. the hospital's corporate parent = the corporate parent of the hospital
2. a parent bank/company/corporation/firm