Definition of parent

"parent" in the noun sense

1. parent

a father or mother one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child a relative who plays the role of guardian

2. parent

an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained

"parent" in the verb sense

1. rear, raise, bring up, nurture, parent

look after a child until it is an adult

"raise a family"

"bring up children"

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Quotations for parent

Thought is parent of the dead. [ Carlyle ]

Fear is the parent of cruelty. [ Froude ]

Contentment, parent of delight. [ Green ]

Delicacy is the parent of decency. [ Mme. Deluzy ]

Parent of golden dreams - romance! [ Byron ]

Consideration is the parent of wisdom. [ Proverb ]

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt. [ Greville ]

Parent of wicked, bane of honest deeds. [ Prior ]

Idleness is the parent of all the vices. [ Italian Proverb ]

O liberty.
Parent of happiness, celestial born
When the first man became a living soul;
His sacred genius thou. [ Dyer ]

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. [ South ]

Our country is the common parent of all. [ Cicero ]

Idleness is the parent of vice and misery. [ Proverb ]

Darkness, thou first great parent of us all.
Thou art our great original! [ Yalden ]

True love is the parent of a noble humility. [ William Ellery Channing ]

These are Thy glorious works. Parent of good. [ Milton ]

Oh! nature's noblest gift - my grey goosed quill:
Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will,
Torn from thy parent bird to form a pen,
That mighty instrument of little men! [ Byron ]

Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

Rashness is the fruitful but unhappy parent of misfortune. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Poetry, the eldest sister of all arts, and parent of most. [ Congreve ]

To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith! [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention as attention is of memory. [ Whately ]

Good sense is both the first principle and parent-source of good writing. [ Horace ]

To breed up the son to commonsense is evermore the parent's least expense. [ Dryden ]

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [ Quintilian ]

Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent. [ Miss Mulock ]

Cherish flowers; a flower plucked from its parent stock soon loses its beauty. [ Catullus ]

I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow. [ Washington Irving ]

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence. [ Lord Beaconsfield ]

Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us, as a parent a child that he loves? [ Fenelon ]

Time is the king of men; he is both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave. [ William Shakespeare ]

The strongest love which the human heart has ever felt has been that for its Heavenly Parent. Was it not then constituted for this love? [ W. E. Channing ]

Jealousy is said to be the offspring of love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

By eloquence I understand those appeals to our moral perceptions that produce emotion as soon as they are uttered. This is the very enthusiasm that is the parent of poetry. Let the same man go to his closet and clothe in numbers conceptions full of the same fire and spirit, and they will be poetry. [ Bryant ]

Anxiety is the poison of human life. It is the parent of many sins, and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, where you may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, what means this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can your solicitude alter the cause or unravel the intricacy of human events? [ Blair ]

If thy mother be a widow, give her double honor, who now acts the part of a double parent; remember her nine month's burden, and her tenth month's travel; forget not her indulgence, when thou didst hang upon her tender breast; call to mind her prayers for thee before thou earnest into the world; and her cares for thee when thou wert come into the world; remember her secret groans, her affectionate tears, her broken slumbers, her daily fears, her nightly frights; relieve her wants, cover her imperfections, comfort her age, and the widow's husband will be the orphan's father. [ F. Quarles ]

parent in Scrabble®

The word parent is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters parent:

TREPAN
(33)
PRETAN
(33)
PANTER
(33)
PARENT
(33)
ENTRAP
(33)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word parent

PARENT
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In parent

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(33)
PRETAN
(33)
PANTER
(33)
PARENT
(33)
ENTRAP
(33)
APTER
(30)
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parent in Words With Friends™

The word parent is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters parent:

TREPAN
(66)
PANTER
(66)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word parent

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In parent

TREPAN
(66)
PANTER
(66)
PARENT
(60)
PRETAN
(60)
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(60)
PARENT
(54)
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(48)
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Word Growth involving parent

Shorter words in parent

ar are pare

re are pare

ar par pare

pa par pare

en rent

re rent

Longer words containing parent

apparent apparently unapparently

apparent unapparent unapparently

apparent unapparent unapparentness

birthparent birthparents

godparent godparents

grandparent grandparents

nonparent nonparental

nonparent nonparents

parentage parentages

parental biparental

parental nonparental

parental parentalism

parental parentally

parental uniparental

parented

parenteral parenterally

parentheses

parenthesis parenthesisation

parenthesis parenthesised

parenthesization

parenthesize parenthesized

parenthesize parenthesizes

parenthesizing

parenthetic parenthetical parenthetically

parenthood parenthoods

parenticide

parenting

parentless

parents birthparents

parents godparents

parents grandparents

parents nonparents

parents stepparents

stepparent stepparents

transparent nontransparent nontransparently

transparent nontransparent nontransparentness

transparent radiotransparent

transparent semitransparent semitransparently

transparent semitransparent semitransparentness

transparent transparently nontransparently

transparent transparently semitransparently