Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“Parents” is a form of

parent

/ˈpɛəɹənt/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms parents parenting parented

  1. noun (often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.). “After both her parents were killed in a forest fire, Sonia was adopted by her aunt and uncle.”
  2. noun (often in the plural) A person who has had a baby; this person in relation to their child or children.
  3. noun A surrogate parent.
  4. noun A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.
  5. noun (obsolete) A relative.
  6. noun The source or origin of something.
  7. noun (biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
  8. noun (attributive) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
  9. verb To act as parent, to raise or rear.
  10. verb (programming) To provide a parent object for one or more other objects, which become the children.
  11. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

genitor progenitor mother raise rear bring up nurture

Antonyms

child offspring

Etymology

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

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother.
  2. noun That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice.

Etymology [L. parens, -entis; akin to parere to bring forth; cf. Gr. parent. Cf. Part.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “parent”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “parent” (best matches first).

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