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noun
- One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or 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.
- The source or origin of something.
- 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 descended The child object inherits methods and data fields from the parent.
Etymology: From parens, parÄns "parent".
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