parent

IPA: pˈɛrʌnt

One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father.
A surrogate parent.
A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.
A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child; a step-parent or adoptive parent.
(obsolete) A relative.
The source or origin of something.
(biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
(attributive) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
A parent company.
(computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
(physics) The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.
A surname.

To act as parent, to raise or rear.
(programming) To provide a parent object for one or more other objects, which become the children.

Examples of "parent" in Sentences

And I used the term parent in the loosest sense of the word.
Women understand that the decision to become a parent is among the most personal and important that an individual ever makes in her life.
AS for kids, if their parent is a U.S. citizen, then presumably, they are too, and if they are with the parent, then it will be hard to hold them.
Now, here is plainly an abundant opportunity for congenital variations; for it is seen that each individual does not come from germ material _identical with that from which either parent came, but from some of this material mixed with a similar amount from a different parent_.