名詞 parent:

1. a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian

動詞 parent:

1. bring up
   同義詞：rear, raise, bring up, nurture

1. Being a parent can be hard work.
   當(dāng)父母可是件辛苦的事。
2. My parents have gone to Hangzhou for holiday.
   我父母已經(jīng)去杭州度假了。

par.ent

n.（名詞）
One who begets, gives birth to, or nurtures and raises a child; a father or a mother.
雙親之一（父或母）：生育、培育或撫養(yǎng)孩子的人；父親或母親
An ancestor; a progenitor.
先輩；祖父
An organism that produces or generates offspring.
母體：生產(chǎn)或生育后代的生物體
A guardian; a protector.
監(jiān)護人；保護人
A source or cause; an origin:
根源，起源：
例句：
Despair is the parent of rebellion.
走投無路是反抗的根源

v.（動詞）
par.ent.ed,par.ent.ing,par.ents
v.tr.（及物動詞）
Usage Problem To act as a parent to; raise and nurture:
【用法疑難】 撫養(yǎng)，撫育：做…的家長；撫養(yǎng)或養(yǎng)育：
例句：
.A genitor who does not parent the child is not its parent.(Ashley Montagu)
.不養(yǎng)育孩子的父母不能稱為孩子的父母.(阿什利·蒙塔古)

To cause to come into existence; originate.
使產(chǎn)生：引起…的存在；產(chǎn)起
v.intr.Usage Problem （不及物動詞）【用法疑難】
To act as a parent.
撫育，撫養(yǎng)：做父（母）

來源：
Middle English
中古英語
from Old French
源自 古法語
from Latin parôns parent- [from past active participle of] parere [to give birth] * see per…-
源自 拉丁語 parôns parent- [] 源自parere的過去主動語態(tài)分詞 [生，生育] *參見 per…-

【引伸】
par.enthood.
n.（名詞）
The Usage Panel is better disposed to accept the verbparent than in previous surveys, though a majority continues to find it unacceptable.In 9'8 it was acceptable to only 9 percent of the Panel;in the most recent survey45 percent accepted it in the sentenceIn looking for foster homes, we give preference first to relatives and second to families with prior experience in parenting. · The use of the verbparent to mean .act as a parent to. is not entirely new:it occurs as early as 884 in a metaphorical context.But its use in a literal sense with respect to children is a recent development and reflects a modern reconceptualization of family life.The word is not completely synonymous with the traditional expressionraise a child, though the precise nature of the differences may depend on the context.For some speakers,use of the word suggests a self-conscious shift from child to parent as the focus of the parental relationship,and it may be this implication that feeds critical reservations about the verb.But the usage also reflects a widespread practical realizationthat the activities required of a parent extend well beyond the direct interactionwith the child emphasized inchild raising. Thus theparenting classes for young parents offered by schools and state agencies encompass not only the activities traditionally associated with raising a childbut also topics such as personal self-sufficiency, household financial management, and methods of dealing with schools and health care agencies.See Usage Note at father
用法小組比以往更傾向于接受動詞parent 了， 雖然還有大部分人覺得不可接受。9'8年僅有9％的小組成員認同這種用法；在最近的調(diào)查中，有45％的人接受了它,如在：在尋找收養(yǎng)家庭時，我們首先選孩子的親戚，其次是有過養(yǎng)育孩子經(jīng)歷的家庭 這樣的句子中的用法。 Parent 的意為.做…的父（母）.動詞用法， 并不完全是個新用法：早在884年，在一個比喻性的文章中就出現(xiàn)過了。但就孩子這方面而言，它的本義是近期發(fā)展的結(jié)果并反映了現(xiàn)代家庭生活的觀念。這個詞并不與習(xí)語 raise a child 完全同義， 盡管不同之處確切的性質(zhì)可能取決于說話背景。但對一些人來說，使用這個詞暗含一個把家長的關(guān)系作為重點的自覺的從孩子到父母的轉(zhuǎn)換，也許正是這個隱含的用意引起了關(guān)于這個動詞批評性的保留。然而，這個用法也反映了廣泛的現(xiàn)實認識，即要求父母的活動擴展到超出直接與孩子的相互作用，這個相互作用在 child raising 這個短語中有所強調(diào)。 因此，由學(xué)校和國家專門部門向年輕家長提供的 parenting 課， 不僅包括傳統(tǒng)上與撫養(yǎng)孩子有關(guān)的事務(wù)，而且還包括諸如個人自給自足、家庭財政管理和同學(xué)校和保健部門打交道的方法等課題參見 father