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Another word for parent

parent Synonyms

parent

n.

father, mother, foster parent, foster father, foster mother, stepparent, stepfather, stepmother, immediate forebear, procreator, progenitor, sire, the one from whom one has one's being; see also father 1, mother 1, origin 3.

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parent

v.

raise, rear, foster, bring up; see raise 2.

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Another word for parent

noun

A person from whom one is descended:
ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, father, forebear, forefather, foremother, mother, progenitor. (Archaic) predecessor. See kin, precede
One that creates, founds, or originates:
architect, author, creator, entrepreneur, father, founder², inventor, maker, originator, patriarch. See start
A point of origination:
beginning, derivation, fount, fountain, fountainhead, mother, origin, provenance, provenience, root¹, rootstock, source, spring, well¹. See start

verb

To cause to come into existence:

beget, breed, create, engender, father, hatch, make, originate, procreate, produce, sire, spawn. Idiom: give birth (or rise) to. See make

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What causes a parent to love one child more than another?
And the one to do it is the parent or the special teacher, not the school.
A Ragged School was opened on the Castle Hill, which has been the parent of many similar institutions elsewhere, though Guthrie's relation to the movement is best described as that of an apostle rather than a founder.
Several are only known in cultivation, and we have but little knowledge of the wild parent forms from which they have descended.
Where was the parent which hatched it, its kindred, and its father in the heavens?

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