English Dictionary

parent

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpɛɚ.ənt/

名詞

廃用 限定用法

One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father. / A surrogate parent

日本語の意味

生物学的に直系の親（父または母） / 代理親、代用親

When his parent looked through the old photo album, he finally understood his family's history.

彼の実の母親または父親が古い写真アルバムをめくったとき、彼はようやく家族の歴史を理解しました。

意味（1）

One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father.

After both her parents were killed in a forest fire, Sonia was adopted by her aunt and uncle.

意味（2）

A surrogate parent

意味（3）

A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material

意味（4）

A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child; a step-parent or adoptive parent.

It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.

意味（5）

(obsolete) A relative.

意味（6）

The source or origin of something.

Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry.

意味（7）

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

意味（8）

(attributive) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.

意味（9）

A parent company.

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.

意味（10）

(computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.

意味（11）

(physics) The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.

parents （ plural ）