Definitions for parents
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1. parents(Noun)

   one's mother and father

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1. Parents

   Parents is a 1989 American black comedy horror film directed by Bob Balaban and written by Christopher Hawthorne. It stars Randy Quaid, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis and Bryan Madorsky. The film is about a suburban boy in the 1950s who suspects his parents of cannibalism.

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1. Parents

   Persons functioning as natural, adoptive, or substitute parents. The heading includes the concept of parenthood as well as preparation for becoming a parent.

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1. PARENTS

   One of the hardships of a minor's life.

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1. parents

   Plural form of the word parent.

   Her parents are both still alive and enjoy a healththy and active lifestyle.

   Submitted by MaryC on April 8, 2016  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'parents' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #591

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'parents' in Written Corpus Frequency: #743

Anagrams for parents »

1. arpents, entraps, Napster, panters, pastern, trepans

How to pronounce parents?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say parents in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of parents in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of parents in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of parents in a Sentence

1. Brian Lee:

   We obviously know that depression is a bad thing like any other mental health outcome, it’s less recognized that mental health outcomes affect other people than the people themselves. So for parents or guardians, a vulnerable population would be their children.

2. Vikrant Parsai:

   No matter how misbehaved a child, the parents will accept.

3. Tyra Bryant-Stephens:

   Parents who are living really stressful lives can't stop what they're doing to take care of that one item, necessarily, so if you have a child who seems to be OK, doesn't have symptoms right then, you may delay that just because of all the other competing priorities.

4. Malcolm Spellman:

   But there’s no connective tissue between us and what’s coming out in the media, i don’t know that we can change anyone’s mind but what people have to understand is, and what we are obligated to repeat in every interview is : We’ve got black aunties. We’ve got black nephews, uncles. Black parents and black grandparents. We deal with them every single day. We deal with the struggle every single day. And people don’t have to get on board with what we’re doing based on a press release. But when they’re writing about us, and commenting about us, they should be mindful of the fact that there are no sell-outs involved in this show.

5. Ian Paul:

   For this to be effective, we need not just the parents and families to make the switch to metric, we need providers and pharmacists too.

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