Parents

Word PARENTS
Character 7
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈpɛəɹənts/

Definitions and meanings of "Parents"

What do we mean by parents?

One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father.

A surrogate mother

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.

A relative.

The source or origin of something.

An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.

Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.

The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Parents

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The word "parents" in example sentences

Depending on your point of view, you might not be ­surprised to learn that permissive parents don't get more truth-telling from their teens than stricter ­parents. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Promoted to Headline (H3) on 3/26/09: Is parents 'rally in Boston a harbinger of wider protests? yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' Is parents\ 'rally in Boston a harbinger of wider protests?' ❋ Unknown (2009)

In Honor of Anthony and Mary Guarisco (A Son's Tribute to his parents 'many accomplishments in life) yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' In Honor of Anthony and Mary Guarisco (A Son\'s Tribute to his parents\ 'many accomplishments in life)'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Operation Crossroads was a series of two 23-kiloton plutonium atomic bomb tests in which the US government used 42,000 of its own uniformed citizens as guinea pigs. ❋ Unknown (2008)

” In pure Malay society, we are told, a man is never asked his name, and the custom of naming parents after their children is adopted only as a means of avoiding the use of the parents’ own names. ❋ Unknown (1922)

Marriage without consent of parents they do not make void, but they mulct19 it in the inheritors: for the children of such marriages are not admitted to inherit above a third part of their parents’ inheritance. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Young persons need to be reminded, however, that even the impiety of parents is no sufficient reason for disrespecting them _as parents_; and if you possess the inestimable treasure of religion, it will be best evinced in soothing the cares, ministering to the necessities, and setting an example of every duty before the eyes of those who are still so unhappy as to be destitute of it. ❋ Francis Augustus Cox (1818)

Luz is 43 years old and lives with her 3 children and parents in her parents´ house. ❋ Unknown (2009)

School district officials ought to have the authority to send violent kids under 18 to state boarding schools *without the consent of their parents* if disciplinary problems inside and outside the school committed by the violent kids are proven and properly documented – if a trial by the district convicts the children, the children will be sent away and will be unable to leave, and the parents will only be able to get them out if the conviction is reversed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(γονεῖς): these are — parents, grandparents and _their parents_, if they are still alive: ❋ Unknown (1906)

My cousin Wendy has moved back home and is staying with her parents (my Rocking Aunt and Uncle who I adore and wish had been MY OWN parents… ❋ Trulypoetic (2005)

Throughout this chapter, I use the word parents only for convenience. ❋ Sean Covey (2006)

For since it was likely they would say, ` Can you not have both us and ours? 'he adds with much grace this excuse for them, saying, "For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children;" instead of teachers and disciples, employing the term parents and children, and showing that he does as a matter of duty what was not of duty. ❋ Editor (1889)

If one of your parents is addicted to gambling the odds are high that you will be as well, research has revealed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Dear Frank, the archive of my parents is accessible at the Deutsche Museum in Munich. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Moving in with your parents is always a strange thing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Taking children away from their parents is a very big deal and should never be done without an exceptionally good reason. ❋ Unknown (2008)

(If it is, then removing children from their parents is a worse one.) ❋ Unknown (2008)

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