parent
part of speech
noun (parent, parents); verb (parent, parents, parented, parenting)
meaning for a pupil
1) A parent is a mother or a father. tree →
2) A parent is also any adult who brings up a child, like a step-parent or a foster parent. tree →
3) To parent is to bring up and look after a child. tree →
4) A parent animal or plant is one that has young. tree →
sense in the lessons
people counted at school events or in families; each child has 2 parents; in school: parents' evening, letters home to parents; in science: young animals and plants get features from their parents; in safety: tell your parents or a trusted adult where you are going; phrases: «parents and carers», «parents' evening», «single parent»
examples
- 12 parents came to the school play. tree →
- Each child brought 1 parent to the trip. tree →
- Tickets cost 5 dollars for parents and 3 for children. tree →
- How many parents came if 20 children came with both parents? tree →
- Please give this letter to your parents. tree →
- Baby birds are fed by their parents. tree →
- Some children live with one parent. tree →
- Ask your parent or carer before you go online. tree →
- Kittens look like their parents. tree →
- Youth’s first duty is reverence to parents. tree →
note
A counted person; «both parents» means 2 for each child. Trap: brothers and sisters share the same parents, so count parents once per family. Families are different: one parent, two parents, step-parents, carers.
In the corpora
- When a parent seems frazzled after work, it is usually the workload, not anything the child did.
- While a parent is unemployed the family may claim benefits and cut spending; free fun like parks and libraries helps.
- Anyone offering free game coins for your login is a scammer trying to steal the account or a parent's card details.
- A parent sleeping on the sofa for a few nights may mean a disagreement, or something simple like snoring or a bad back.
- Separating means parents stop living together as a couple; it may lead to a divorce, but not always straight away.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «parent» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.