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1.NounA person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.). .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}"After both her parents were killed in a forest fire, Sonia was adopted by her aunt and uncle."
2.NounA person who has had a baby; this person in relation to their child or children.
3.NounA surrogate parent.
4.NounA third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.
5.NounA relative.
6.NounThe source or origin of something.
7.NounAn organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
8.NounSponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
A parent company.
9.NounA parent company.
10.NounThe object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
11.NounThe nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.
12.VerbTo act as parent, to raise or rear.
13.VerbTo provide a parent object for one or more other objects, which become the children.