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Word: parent
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Meaning:
Noun:
- A group from which another group is formed, or which completely controls a subordinate group. (''parent company'')
- A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child. (''adoptive parent'', ''foster parent'')
- biology An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
- computing|object oriented computer programming The object from which a child or derived object is descended.
- One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father.
- The source or origin of something.
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Verb:
- To act as parent, to raise or rear.
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