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Definition of Parent
Parent

One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother.

That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice.

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Parent Quotations

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward Beecher

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
Thomas Carlyle

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
Horace

My kids are so much better parent than I was.
Dick Van Dyke

Parent Translations

parent in Afrikaans is ouer
parent in Dutch is ouder
parent in German is parent, Elternteil, Eltern, Elternteil
parent in Latin is parens
parent in Portuguese is pai

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