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▸ noun:  (often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
▸ noun:  (often in the plural) A person who has had a baby; this person in relation to their child or children.
▸ noun:  A surrogate parent.
▸ noun:  A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A relative.
▸ noun:  The source or origin of something.
▸ noun:  (biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
▸ noun:  (attributive) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
▸ noun:  A parent company.
▸ noun:  (computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
▸ noun:  (physics) The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.
▸ verb:  To act as parent, to raise or rear.
▸ verb:  (programming) To provide a parent object for one or more other objects, which become the children.
▸ noun:  A surname.

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