parent

Definition

A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).

Etymology

From Middle English parent, borrowed from Anglo-Norman parent, Middle French parent, from Latin parentem, accusative of parēns (“parent”), present participle of pariō (“I breed, bring forth”).

Example Sentences

• "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 […]"