Another word for parents

as in mothers

a person who brings forth and raises a child

The couple recently became parents for the first time. She grew up in a single parent household.

as in fathers

to bring forth and raise to maturity through care and education

They expertly parent their second child using all the lessons learned from raising their first.

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Synonyms for Parents:

• n.

  • family (noun)

  • Family.

  • Other relevant words: (noun)

  • folks,
  • tribe.

• Other synonyms:

  • Other relevant words:

  • firm,
  • crusade,
  • neat,
  • imposing,
  • hasten,
  • plaza,
  • fond,
  • heart,
  • set up,
  • good,
  • foster parent,
  • stem,
  • sumptuous,
  • upbringing,
  • nates,
  • onetime,
  • incessant,
  • eye,
  • fold,
  • mention,
  • dealings,
  • arse,
  • concentrate on,
  • causal agent,
  • ethnos,
  • luxurious,
  • in person,
  • close,
  • substance,
  • constantly,
  • sure,
  • singly,
  • invoke,
  • predecessor,
  • cracking,
  • breeding,
  • heroic,
  • stern,
  • rise,
  • coitus,
  • church father,
  • blood-related,
  • biotic community,
  • reference,
  • patriotic,
  • line,
  • host,
  • copulation,
  • by all odds,
  • acclivity,
  • on the dot,
  • step on it,
  • fanny,
  • community of interests,
  • sometime,
  • exquisite,
  • centerfield,
  • hover,
  • slap-up,
  • high-flown,
  • elevated,
  • heart and soul,
  • female parent,
  • midway,
  • sire,
  • chiliad,
  • name calling,
  • penetrative,
  • movement,
  • centre of attention,
  • erstwhile,
  • cannonball along,
  • fundament,
  • pregnancy,
  • bring forth,
  • seat,
  • drive,
  • speed,
  • forever,
  • induce,
  • peculiarly,
  • herald,
  • stock,
  • raceway,
  • derriere,
  • thou,
  • fuss,
  • fatherhood,
  • middle,
  • fostering,
  • blood,
  • hind end,
  • incisively,
  • incubate,
  • rearing,
  • rarified,
  • levy,
  • theme,
  • ancestry,
  • mathematical group,
  • wash,
  • aggroup,
  • tender,
  • line of descent,
  • germ,
  • radical,
  • consanguineous,
  • avid,
  • incessantly,
  • pore,
  • bottom,
  • primogenitor,
  • campaign,
  • provoke,
  • nifty,
  • advert,
  • government,
  • evoke,
  • father-god,
  • refer,
  • back,
  • sexual intercourse,
  • cognate,
  • headspring,
  • lancinate,
  • relative,
  • ascendent,
  • beginner,
  • mortal,
  • earnest,
  • harbinger,
  • upraise,
  • wellhead,
  • wage hike,
  • marrow,
  • one by one,
  • rarefied,
  • groovy,
  • nub,
  • 1000,
  • hoi polloi,
  • howling,
  • forefather,
  • previous,
  • can,
  • center on,
  • the great unwashed,
  • dear,
  • elevate,
  • magisterial,
  • wonderful,
  • divine,
  • kick upstairs,
  • rump,
  • lordly,
  • revolve around,
  • multitude,
  • tail,
  • unremitting,
  • one thousand,
  • don,
  • butt,
  • for certain,
  • conjure,
  • halfway,
  • god-fearing,
  • rush along,
  • heighten,
  • aegir,
  • common people,
  • revolve about,
  • conjure up,
  • honest,
  • causal agency,
  • mass,
  • fantastic,
  • akin,
  • jehovah,
  • sept,
  • noble-minded,
  • someone,
  • meat,
  • reboot,
  • peachy,
  • intelligibly,
  • distinguished,
  • steady down,
  • on an individual basis,
  • tooshie,
  • suit,
  • back end,
  • sure as shooting,
  • home,
  • stew,
  • sustain,
  • keister,
  • somebody,
  • run,
  • exalted,
  • paradigm,
  • shopping centre,
  • essence,
  • parenthood,
  • kinsperson,
  • center of attention,
  • residential area,
  • older,
  • maternal quality,
  • perpetual,
  • focus,
  • grow,
  • sublime,
  • ascent,
  • honorable,
  • consanguine,
  • unceasing,
  • knifelike,
  • perfectly,
  • princely,
  • settle down,
  • causa,
  • nourish,
  • heave,
  • writer,
  • invariably,
  • kernel,
  • spiritual,
  • mall,
  • citizenry,
  • truly,
  • tidal bore,
  • founder,
  • identical,
  • subspecies,
  • invariant,
  • backside,
  • lament,
  • stemma,
  • god almighty,
  • overprotect,
  • grizzle,
  • airstream,
  • enate,
  • opulent,
  • invariable,
  • penetrating,
  • sharp,
  • for sure,
  • root word,
  • focus on,
  • nerve center,
  • padre,
  • reservoir,
  • stabbing,
  • lancinating,
  • rout,
  • image,
  • pedigree,
  • swarm,
  • belt along,
  • boot,
  • lawsuit,
  • individual,
  • folk music,
  • leaven,
  • bully,
  • advance,
  • shopping mall,
  • defender,
  • cover,
  • arouse,
  • concentrate,
  • get up,
  • rootle,
  • pith,
  • prove,
  • lineage,
  • rear end,
  • center field,
  • dwell,
  • ass,
  • genealogy,
  • protector,
  • e’er,
  • drove,
  • in particular,
  • smashing,
  • phratry,
  • tail end,
  • stir,
  • perpetually,
  • kin group,
  • just,
  • take root,
  • bang-up,
  • understandably,
  • soul,
  • centre,
  • mastermind,
  • unvarying,
  • wage increase,
  • gestation,
  • chemical group,
  • upgrade,
  • case,
  • recounting,
  • high-minded,
  • bore,
  • idealistic,
  • rattling,
  • motherliness,
  • heartfelt,
  • call forth,
  • on the button,
  • properly,
  • antecedent,
  • generate,
  • precursor,
  • thousand,
  • sure enough,
  • hike,
  • deluxe,
  • solution,
  • hie,
  • great,
  • gilded,
  • midpoint,
  • engender,
  • buns,
  • dependable,
  • conceiver,
  • maternalism,
  • name,
  • climb,
  • grounds,
  • grand piano,
  • sexual relation,
  • gist,
  • buttocks,
  • personal effects,
  • designer,
  • birth,
  • origination,
  • clear,
  • settle,
  • constant quantity,
  • etymon,
  • bringing up,
  • conjugal family,
  • bloodline,
  • not bad,
  • pout,
  • put forward,
  • rootage,
  • male parent,
  • august,
  • in reality,
  • fast,
  • descent,
  • lift,
  • call down,
  • put up,
  • motherhood,
  • rush,
  • marvelous,
  • egg,
  • former,
  • rivet,
  • have,
  • foster,
  • separately,
  • coition,
  • godhead,
  • core,
  • legion,
  • duteous,
  • grouping,
  • adopter,
  • cite,
  • eagre,
  • promote,
  • farm,
  • maker,
  • extraction,
  • hindquarters,
  • acute,
  • on the nose,
  • hatch,
  • base,
  • ever,
  • loom,
  • antediluvian,
  • agnate,
  • salary increase,
  • rise up,
  • residential district,
  • marvellous,
  • in truth,
  • fire,
  • tush,
  • respectable,
  • authorship,
  • regime,
  • informant,
  • sulk,
  • terrific,
  • unquestionably,
  • kindle,
  • enkindle,
  • agnatic,
  • tremendous,
  • authentically,
  • slipstream,
  • almighty,
  • wondrous,
  • posterior,
  • authentic,
  • seed,
  • lovesome,
  • paterfamilias,
  • stimulate,
  • effort,
  • corking,
  • epitome,
  • swell,
  • lofty,
  • enhance,
  • masses,
  • congregation,
  • yard,
  • shopping center,
  • blood line,
  • lush,
  • selfsame,
  • produce,
  • shielder,
  • revered,
  • reason,
  • resurrect,
  • family line,
  • incisive,
  • dead,
  • recruit,
  • bum,
  • piercing,
  • emphatically,
  • dandy,
  • fosterage,
  • head,
  • ethnic music,
  • sum,
  • quondam,
  • inception,
  • house,
  • relation back,
  • erect,
  • well,
  • extremely,
  • never-ending,
  • expansive,
  • prat,
  • true,
  • enatic,
  • one-time,
  • severally,
  • computable,
  • discriminating,
  • beginning,
  • raising,
  • sexual congress,
  • intercourse,
  • utterly,
  • backwash,
  • bucket along,
  • ceaseless,
  • generator,
  • hotfoot,
  • sex act,
  • in spades,
  • federation of tribes,
  • beget,
  • nitty-gritty,
  • elicit,
  • ascendant,
  • telling,
  • truehearted,
  • snapper,
  • lord,
  • bulk large,
  • make,
  • founding father,
  • inwardness,
  • rearward,
  • changeless,
  • get,
  • carnal knowledge,
  • pelt along,
  • cutting,
  • exactly,
  • real,
  • behind.

  • Other relevant words (noun):

  • personally,
  • conjures,
  • adopters,
  • sustains,
  • sires,
  • paternal,
  • OLDS,
  • creates,
  • youngest,
  • estimable,
  • mentions,
  • very,
  • partners,
  • affectionate,
  • provokes,
  • positively,
  • enthusiastic,
  • surely,
  • causes,
  • Levies,
  • devoted,
  • nurtures,
  • reboots,
  • cites,
  • faithful,
  • progenitors,
  • specifically,
  • devout,
  • always,
  • advances,
  • certainly,
  • constant,
  • specially,
  • authors,
  • sources,
  • parented,
  • Mothers,
  • kindles,
  • farms,
  • individually,
  • increases,
  • eager,
  • erects,
  • begetter,
  • leavens,
  • Determinately,
  • progenitor,
  • expressly,
  • rears,
  • grand,
  • absolutely,
  • elicits,
  • originates,
  • guardians,
  • ancient,
  • heightens,
  • actually,
  • venerable,
  • decidedly,
  • near to,
  • roots,
  • rises,
  • names,
  • really,
  • relation,
  • old,
  • upgrades,
  • loyal,
  • distinctly,
  • genuinely,
  • adverts,
  • elevates,
  • kisses,
  • ancestors,
  • fires,
  • Boots,
  • invokes,
  • particularly,
  • dutiful,
  • highly,
  • parental,
  • precisely,
  • nourishes,
  • family tree,
  • cradles,
  • zealous,
  • produces,
  • begetters,
  • religious,
  • arouses,
  • promotes,
  • stirs,
  • recruits,
  • greatly,
  • lifts,
  • origins,
  • fosters,
  • fledges,
  • definitely,
  • precursors,
  • reliable,
  • Stepparents,
  • closely related,
  • generates,
  • maternal,
  • evokes,
  • ultimates,
  • resurrects,
  • clearly,
  • genitors,
  • prototypes,
  • proves,
  • Fathers,
  • folk,
  • raises,
  • parent,
  • Spouses,
  • forerunners,
  • especially,
  • enhances,
  • patriarch,
  • keen,
  • pious,
  • forefathers,
  • loving,
  • refers,
  • person.

How to use «Parents» in context?

As a parent, one of the most important things you can do is provide a safe and supportive home for your children. This starts with setting a good example, showing genuine affection, and modeling the types of behaviors you want your children to emulate. It’s also important to be attentive to your children’s individual needs, listening to what they have to say, and providing guidance and support when needed. Creating a positive relationship with your children is key to their success in life, and you can make this happen by setting the example.

Paraphrases for Parents:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, plural
    women, Persons, progenitors.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    father, Fathers, parenting.
  • Noun, plural
    father, mother, Fathers, Mothers, Siblings, Stepparents, MOMS, adopters, step-parents, foster-parents.

• Independent

  • Foreign word
    des, la.
  • Proper noun, singular
    abuse, canada, care, health, household, london, paternal, press, sponsor, sponsorship, start, state, Children, Les, Them, Sloan, sponsoring, famille.
  • Noun, plural
    act, collected, consent, devices, ec, folks, main, names, needs, parts, people, preschool, primary, relations, services, upper, upwards, years, Activities, Affinities, B, Having, Matrices, Ones, Opportunities, Parties, Padres, Communities, Countries, Adults, Associations, Caregivers, Carriers, Couples, Friends, Households, Husbands, Infants, Males, Orphans, Patents, Patients, Programs, Pupils, Resources, Risks, Schools, Sons, Spouses, Standards, Students, Templates, ministers, priests, chiefs, heads, partners, skills, homes, levels, citizens, inhabitants, residents, elders, agreements, believes, auditors, accounts, considers, assessments, statements, arrays, cases, cousins, authors, courses, reforms, threats, symptoms, outcomes, quotas, members, sponsors, ancestors, forebears, pioneers, guardians, dams, peers, contributions, sides, pairs, locals, others, sexes, forefathers, matrixes, perpetrators, participants, individuals, civilians, compatriots, in-laws, pa, ascendants, 2002, spawners, -rsb-.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    S.

• Exclusion

  • Noun, plural
    Children, kids.

Homophones for Parents:

• prim out, pronate, paranoid, permeant, premeditated, phoronidea, preeminent, pyramid, prehend, phoronid, paramount, permit, Pro Re Nata, paper round, parenthood, primate, permanent, pharaoh ant, prayer mat, printed, parented, prurient, print, phoronida, primed, permeate, permute, premeditate, prominent, permed, Pernyi Moth, peppermint, promote, promenade, permanent tooth, perianth, power unit, pernod, printout, perennate, pronto.

Omophagic

Synonyms:

herbivorous,
omnivorous.

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