Definition of Parnt
Par"ent (?), n. [L. parens, -
entis; akin to parere to bring forth; cf. Gr. &?; to give,
beget: cf. F. parent. Cf. Part.] 1.
One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a
mother.
Children, obey your parents in the
Lord. Eph. vi. 1.
2. That which produces; cause; source; author;
begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice.
Regular industry is the parent of
sobriety. Channing.
Parent cell. (Biol.) See Mother
cell, under Mother, also Cytula. --
Parent nucleus (Biol.), a nucleus which,
in cell division, divides, and gives rise to two or more daughter
nuclei. See Karyokinesis, and Cell division, under
Division.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended.
See also: mother, father
- A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child. (adoptive parent, foster parent)
- (Biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
- A group from which another group is formed, or which completely controls a subordinate group. (parent company)
- In object oriented computer programming, the object from which a child or derived object is decended The child object inherits methods and data fields from the parent.
French
- one's father or mother
- any person to which one is related
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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