Noun

(en noun)

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

My twin sister says she loves our parents , but honestly, I dislike them .

* c. 1595 , (William Shakespeare), The Tempest , First Folio 1623, I.2:

my trust / Like a good parent , did beget of him / A falsehood in it's contrarie, as great / As my trust was, which had indeede no limit, / A confidence sans bound.

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And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind [...].

* 2005 , Siobhan O'Neill, The Guardian , 24 Aug 2005:

The NHS is naturally pro-immunisation, reassuring parents that their babies can easily cope with these jabs.

A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child; a step-parent or adoptive parent.

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(obsolete) A relative.

The source or origin of something.

* 1785 , (Thomas Jefferson), Notes on the State of Virginia :

Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry.

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

(label) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.

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# A parent company.

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

Noun

(-)

The doctrine that the soul or spirit is inherited from one or both parents.

* 2003 , Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason'', Penguin (2004), page 37''n :

Augustine's insistence on its spiritual nature made it hard for him to uphold, along with Tertullian, the doctrine of physical traducianism .

*2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 145:

*:Tertullian suggested that the human soul is transmitted by parents to their children and is therefore inescapably associated with continuing human sin: this doctrine of ‘traducianism ’ underlay the pessimistic view of the human condition and its imprisonment in original sin which was presented in an extreme form by that later theological giant from North Africa, Augustine of Hippo.