parentとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛɚ.ənt/, /ˈpæɹ.ənt/; enPR: pârʹ-ənt, părʹ-ənt
  • (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpæɹ.ənt/, /ˈpɛə.ɹənt/; enPR: părʹ-ənt, pâʹ-rənt
  • 韻: -ɛə(ɹ)ənt, -æɹənt

名詞

parent (複数形 parents)

1. One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father. [from 15th c.]

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

   • 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:

     my trust / Like a good parent, did beget of him / A falsehood in it's contrarie, as great / As my trust was, which had indeede no limit, / A confidence sans bound.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, John 9:19–20:

     And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind […]

   • 2005, Siobhan O'Neill, The Guardian, 24 Aug 2005:

     The NHS is naturally pro-immunisation, reassuring parents that their babies can easily cope with these jabs.

   Synonyms: genitor, progenitor

   Antonyms: child, offspring

   Hyponyms: father, mother

2. A surrogate parent
3. A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material
4. A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child; a step-parent or adoptive parent.
   • 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:

     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.

5. (obsolete) A relative. [15th-18th c.]
6. The source or origin of something. [from 16th c.]
   • 1785, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia:

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

   • 1789, The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature (volume 68, page 341)

     Indolence and unalimentary food are the parents of this disease; but to neither are Indians accustomed.

7. (biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended. [from 17th c.]
8. (attributive) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector. ^[1]
   • 1944, Miles Burton, The Three Corpse Trick, chapter 5:

     The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.

   1. A parent company. [from 20th c.]
      • 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:

        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.

9. (computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node. [from 20th c.]

   Synonym: mother

   Antonym: child

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

派生語

関連する語

動詞

parent (三人称単数 現在形 parents, 現在分詞 parenting, 過去形および過去分詞形 parented)

1. To act as parent, to raise or rear.

   Synonyms: raise, rear

   • 2006, Natalie Bandlow, Parent to Child the Guide: How to Create a Comprehensive And Meaningful Journal to Prepare Your Child for Life, iUniverse (→ISBN), page 1:

     However, even with money and caregivers, the child is left without a parent and most likely without a plan for their emotional, psychological, and spiritual well-being. A time will come when you will no longer be able to parent your child, period.

派生語

• parenting

参考

• foster

参照

アナグラム

• -pteran, Panter, Parten, arpent, enrapt, entrap, panter, trepan

Latin

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.rent/, [ˈpärɛn̪t̪]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.rent/, [ˈpäːren̪t̪]

動詞

parent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of parō

動詞

pārent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of pāreō