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# parent

«parent» in Mova's school dictionary: **a mother or a father** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (parent, parents); verb (parent, parents, parented, parenting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A parent is a mother or a father. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parent/#m1)

2) A parent is also any adult who brings up a child, like a step-parent or a foster parent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parent/#m2)

3) To parent is to bring up and look after a child. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parent/#m3)

4) A parent animal or plant is one that has young. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parent/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

people counted at school events or in families; each child has 2 parents; in school: parents' evening, letters home to parents; in science: young animals and plants get features from their parents; in safety: tell your parents or a trusted adult where you are going; phrases: «parents and carers», «parents' evening», «single parent»

### examples

- 12 parents came to the school play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parent/#x1)
- Each child brought 1 parent to the trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parent/#x2)
- Tickets cost 5 dollars for parents and 3 for children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parent/#x3)
- How many parents came if 20 children came with both parents? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parent/#x4)
- Please give this letter to your parents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parent/#x5)
- Baby birds are fed by their parents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parent/#x6)
- Some children live with one parent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parent/#x7)
- Ask your parent or carer before you go online. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parent/#x8)
- Kittens look like their parents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parent/#x9)
- Youth’s first duty is reverence to parents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parent/#x10)

### note

A counted person; «both parents» means 2 for each child. Trap: brothers and sisters share the same parents, so count parents once per family. Families are different: one parent, two parents, step-parents, carers.

### In the corpora

- [When a parent seems frazzled after work, it is usually the workload, not anything the child did.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/18/)
- [While a parent is unemployed the family may claim benefits and cut spending; free fun like parks and libraries helps.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/9/)
- [Anyone offering free game coins for your login is a scammer trying to steal the account or a parent's card details.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/19/)
- [A parent sleeping on the sofa for a few nights may mean a disagreement, or something simple like snoring or a bad back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/12/)
- [Separating means parents stop living together as a couple; it may lead to a divorce, but not always straight away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «parent» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parent/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.