Phrase Hound found 56 phrases and 61 compound words that contain parent. The most common are listed below. Open parent in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 56
- parent companyA company that owns or controls one or more other companies.
- single parentA parent who is the only guardian of offspring.
- foster parentAn adult who cares for a child who has been placed in foster care.
- parent-in-lawOne's spouse's parent.
- birth parentA biological parent of an adopted child.
- parent languageA language from which a later language is derived.
- Parent directory
- Custodial parent
- co-parentSomeone who shares in the parenting of a child or children, such as
- parent companiesplural of parent company: A company that owns or controls one or more other companies.
- helicopter parentA parent who pays an inordinate amount of attention to their children and often makes decisions, particularly educational ones, normally the province of the student.
- grand-parentAlternative form of grandparent: The parent of someone's parent.
- parent classSynonym of base class: A class from which other classes can be derived, inheriting its functionality or interface; a potential superclass for subclasses.
- step-parentAlternative form of stepparent: One's parent's spouse who is not one's biological parent.
- parent bugThe shield bug Elasmucha grisea, known for showing a high level of parental care.
- solo parentA single parent, resulting from divorce or separation, or by the death of the other parent, who is raising a family in the absence of the other parent
- snowplow parentA parent who intervenes to prevent their child from facing obstacles and difficulties.
- single-parent familiesplural of single-parent family: A nuclear family with only one parent.
- pre-parentSynonym of preparental: Prior to parenthood.
- three-parentHaving three genetic parents; that is, having been produced by a process in which the nucleus of one egg is inserted into the cytoplasm of another egg, which contains mitochondrial DNA, and then the hybrid egg is fertilized by a sperm.
- sugar parentA person who spends money for the benefit of a younger person, typically in exchange for companionship or sexual favors.
- bonus parentA person who serves in a parental role to a child who has a different biological parent, with or without formally marrying the child’s other parent or going through the formal process of adoption.
- parent-teacher associationA formal organization composed of parents, teachers, and staff that is intended to facilitate parental participation in a public or private school.
- parent-teacher organizationSynonym of parent-teacher association: A formal organization composed of parents, teachers, and staff that is intended to facilitate parental participation in a public or private school.
- parent nuclidethe nuclide whose radioactive decay product is a specific daughter nuclide
Compound words 61
- grandparentThe parent of someone's parent.
- godparentA person who, at a child's naming ceremony or baptism, agrees to help raise the child, originally and especially in regard to their religious development.
- parentismDiscrimination against parents.
- reparentTo subject to early parenting techniques again (such as rocking and feeding) in order to treat an attachment disorder.
- parentlyOf, relating to, or characteristic of a parent; parental.
- overparentTo provide an excessive amount of parental attention and protection to one's children.
- parentificationA process of role reversal whereby a child is obliged to act as a parent to its own parent or sibling.
- parentlandThe place where an ethnic group originated; the place from which a population immigrated.
- sharentA parent who documents their child's upbringing on social media, typically by posting photos, videos, etc.
- oversharentTo overdocument one's child's upbringing on social media; to sharent excessively.