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1. (often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).Examples: "After both her parents were killed in a forest fire, Sonia was adopted by her aunt and uncle."; "my trust / Like a good parent, did beget of him / A falsehood in it's contrarie, as great / As my trust was, which had indeede no limit, / A confidence sans bound."; "And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind […]"Synonyms: genitor, progenitorAntonyms: child, offspringin-pluraloften

2. (often in the plural) A person who has had a baby; this person in relation to their child or children.in-pluraloften

3. (obsolete) A relative.obsolete

4. (biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.

5. (attributive) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.Examples: "The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green."attributive

6. (attributive) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.Examples: "The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled."attributive