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Another word for parent

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Noun

  1. A person from whom one is descended

    See also:

    precede

    kin

  2. One that creates, founds, or originates

    See also:

    start

  3. A point of origination

    See also:

    start

Verb

  1. To cause to come into existence

    Idioms:
    See also:

    make

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Another word for parent

Noun
  1. See also:

    origin

    mother

    father

Verb
  1. See also:

    raise

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • He's gone from one foster parent to another.

  • Where was the parent which hatched it, its kindred, and its father in the heavens?

  • Several are only known in cultivation, and we have but little knowledge of the wild parent forms from which they have descended.

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