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"PARENTS" is a plural of: parent. |
Date "PARENTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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19th Century Satire | One of the hardships of a minor's life. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Dream Interpretation | To see your parents looking cheerful while dreaming, denotes harmony and pleasant associates. If they appear to you after they are dead, it is a warning of approaching trouble, and you should be particular of your dealings. To see them while they are living, and they seem to be in your home and happy, denotes pleasant changes for you. To a young woman, this usually brings marriage and prosperity. If pale and attired in black, grave disappointments will harass you. To dream of seeing your parents looking robust and contented, denotes you are under fortunate environments; your business and love interests will flourish. If they appear indisposed or sad, you will find life's favors passing you by without recognition. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Reproduction is the creation of one thing as a copy of, product of, or replacement for a similar thing, e.g. photocopying.
It is perhaps most commonly used in the context of biological reproduction and sex:
There are a wide range of reproductive strategies employed by different species.
- Sexual reproduction is a biological process by which organisms create descendants through the combination of genetic material. These organisms have two different adult sexes, male and female.
- Asexual reproduction is a biological process by which an organism creates a genetically similar copy of itself without the combination of genetic material with another individual. For example, the Hydra (invertebrates of the order Hydroidea) and yeast are able to reproduce by budding. These organisms do not have different sexes, and they are capable of "splitting" themselves in half or more and regrow their body parts. Some asexual species, like hydra and jellyfish, will also be able to perform sexual reproductions. Most plants are capable of vegetative reproduction.
Some animals, like human (sexually mature after adolescence) and Northern Gannet (5-6 years), produce few offspring. Others reproduce quickly, but unless raised in an artificial environment, most offspring do not survive to adults. A rabbit (mature after 8 months) produces 10 - 30 offsprings per year, a Nile Crocodile (15 years) produce 50, and fruit fly (10-14 days) produce up to 900. Both strategies can be favoured by evolution: animals with few offspring can time nurturing and protecting them, hence greatly decreasing the need to reproduce; on the other hand, animals with many offspring do not need to spend parental energy on nurturing, allowing more energy to be devoted to survival and more breeding.
These two strategies are known as K-selection (few offspring) and r-selection (many offspring). Which strategy is favoured depends on a wide range of circumstances.
See also: conjugation, sexual intercourse, father, mother, self-replication, reproductive technology
External links
- http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/articles/hydra.html
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Reproduction."
Synonyms: PARENTSSynonyms: Adults, Families. (additional references) |
Crosswords: PARENTS |
| Specialty definitions using "PARENTS": Child of Impaired Parents. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "PARENTS": Parentation. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "PARENTS" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (ancestors, folks, forebears, gentry, kin, kindred, kinsmen, mother and father, parents), Provencal (parents). |
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Screenplays | So were my parents. (Fletch; writing credit: Andrew Bergman. Based on the novel by Gregory McDonald.) My parents left me that house (Ghostbusters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.) Did your parents have any children that lived (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr) My parents pulled this exact same act for years (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) I hope your parents got you a tombstone for Christmas (Home Alone 2: Lost in New York; writing credit: John Hughes) | |
Lyrics | Is it right for both our parents (Living In Sin; performing artist: Bon Jovi) Parents made him come directly home right after school (Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm; performing artist: Crash Test Dummies) Where we fight our parents out in the streets (Bennie And The Jets; performing artist: Elton John) Tempers flarin' from parents just blow 'em off and keep goin' (Cleanin' Out My Closet; performing artist: Eminem) You're real independent so your parents be bugging (Around the Way Girl; performing artist: L.L. Cool J) | |
Clever | My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest. (references; author: Mark Twain) Survivor of Siamese Twins Joins Parents (references; author: unknown) It is not what a teenager knows that worries his parents. It's how he found out. (references; author: unknown) The world was not given to us by our parents, it was lent to us by our children! (references; author: unknown) It takes more money to amuse today's children than it took to educate their parents. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Place Without Parents (1974) Parents and Police Pot (1972) L École des parents (1967) Les Parents à l'école (1954) Too Parents Are People (1954) | |
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 | Pictured here is a large group of adults and children sitting around a swimming pool. They are members of a national group called the Candlelighters, which gives emotional support and practical advice to parents, patients and siblings of cancer victims. This group is in Las Vegas, Nevada and is one of more than 100 nationwide. The Candlelighters headquarters is in Washington, DC. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. These dark-colored white ibis chicks will not get their adult plumage for two years. Their parents feed them crawfish from freshwater wetlands, when available. As juveniles and adults, they feed mostly on fiddler crabs. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | This Piedmontese-Hereford crossbred calf displays classic double muscling because it inherited a defective myostatin gene from both of its parents. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller.. |  | Children and parents receive an environmental education lesson at the Table Rocks. Credit: Tim Haller. |
 | A Brownie troop and parents pitched in to clean and groom a section of trail. Credit: Scott Brayton. |  | Caption: Renderings of Edison's parents, Samuel Edison, Jr., and Nancy Edison; Unknown Date; {14.300/2} (jpg). |
 | [Nurse instructing parents on how to bathe their baby]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | In smoker's houses you find: smoked parents, smoked children, smoked animals : Smoking is dangerous to health. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Ship's Sponsor, Miss Anna Hoch, with her parents and Maid of Honor at the launching ceremonies, 12 August 1905. Kansas was built by the New York Shipbuilding Corp. at Camden, New Jersey. Those present are (from left to right): Miss Ora Allen, Maid of Honor; Mrs. E.W. Hoch, mother of the Sponsor; Miss Anna Hoch; and The Honorable E.W. Hoch, Governor of Kansas and father of the Sponsor. Credit: NAVY. |  | Old soldier bending over sleeping children by firelight with parents in background. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Shed lock" by Corinne Vooys Commentary: "This was the old lock to the bike shed at my parents place." | "Stonewall" by Thorarinn Stefansson Commentary: "A stonewall in my parents garden." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Confucius | The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety. |
Francis Bacon | The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. |
George Canning | Indecision and delays are the parents of failure. |
Hosea Ballou | Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. |
Jacques Delille | Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. |
Karen Savage and Patricia Adams | Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents for the empty nest. |
Muriel Spark | Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. |
Peter Ustinov | Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth. |
William Penn | Next to God, thy parents. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Children, obey your parents, &c. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Option by a husband will cover his wife and option by parents will cover their children under 18 years of age. (reference) |
United Nations | 1948 | Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Her first attempts at usefulness were in an endeavour to find out who were the parents, but Harriet could not tell |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He had lost his parents when very young |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Friend is torn apart from friend, children are torn from their parents, husbands from their wives |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Children straining to be free and quiet parents holding them back |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Their notions relating to the duties of parents and children differ extremely from ours |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Parents sometimes lose their tempers. (references) | |
A major stress might be caring for aging parents. (references) | ||
Children can inherit ALPS from one of their parents. (references) | ||
Business | More parents would like their kids to dress in the same way they dress. (references) | |
Such births are unreported so that the parents can keep trying to conceive a boy. (references) | ||
The ILO reported that 18 percent of children 12 to 14 years of age work, often for parents or relatives. (references) | ||
Children | Switzerland | Children of migrant seasonal workers are not permitted automatically to join their parents. (references) |
Tanzania | In some districts, the attendance of girls continued to decline as the result of the need to care for younger siblings, household work, and early marriage, often at the behest of parents. (references) | |
Cameroon | Nonetheless, education spending during the 1999 and 2000 fiscal year was only approximately 2 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Since parents must pay uniform and book fees for primary school, and because tuition and other fees for secondary education remained even more costly, education remained unaffordable for many children. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | United Kingdom | All parents have the right to withdraw a child from religious education, but the schools must approve this request. (references) |
Brunei | Private mission schools are not allowed to give Christian instruction and are required to give instruction about Islam; however, the Government does not prohibit or restrict parents from giving religious instruction to children in their own homes. (references) | |
Russia | The city authorities did not prevent parents from completing essential repairs before the school year opened on September 1. City officials, the local Jewish community, and the Russian Jewish Congress agreed in writing that the Jewish school would move to a new facility to be provided by the city in time for the school year beginning September 2002. However, by year's end, the city had not offered an alternative facility acceptable to the Jewish community. (references) | |
Economic History | Sweden | Parents are entitled to a total of 12 months' paid leave between birth and the child's eighth birthday, with one of those months reserved specifically for the father. (references) |
Sri Lanka | Another 75,000 Indian Tamils, who themselves or whose parents once applied for Indian citizenship, now wish to remain in Sri Lanka. (references) | |
Solomon Islands | At the time of independence, citizenship was granted to all persons whose parents are or were both British protected persons and members of a group, tribe, or line indigenous to the Solomon Islands. (references) | |
Human Rights | Gambia | The legislation prevents those affected, including parents of children killed on April 10-11, 2000, from seeking redress in any court in the country. (references) |
Georgia | His parents were not notified and he was not released for several days until after his parents and neighbors held a protest. (references) | |
Italy | Except in extraordinary situations, preventive custody is not permitted for pregnant women, single parents of children under 3 years of age, persons over 70 years of age, or those who are seriously ill. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Australia | The Government also continued to oppose an official apology in the specific case of the "Stolen Generation" of Aboriginal children, who were taken from their parents by the Government from 1910 until the early 1970's and raised by foster parents and orphanages. (references) |
Taiwan | The sale of Aborigine children into prostitution by their parents reportedly no longer occurs. (references) | |
Minorities | Yemen | Persons who seek employment at Sana'a University or admission to the military academy by law must demonstrate that they have two citizen parents. (references) |
Political Economy | CHILE | Children 15 to 18 may be legally employed with permission of parents or guardians and in restricted types of labor. (references) |
MEXICO | Although enforcement is spotty, the government formally requires that children attend a minimum of nine years of school and may hold parents legally liable for their children's nonattendance. (references) | |
Sudan | Women are ensured inheritance from their parents; however, a daughter inherits half the share of a son, and a widow inherits a smaller percent than her children. (references) | |
Trade | New Zealand | As of September 1995, about 90% of the banking assets in New Zealand were under control of foreign bank parents and 60% were under ownership of an Australian bank parent. (references) |
Travel | Latvia | Whether or not a person with United States citizenship would also be considered as a Latvian citizen is a legal question dependent upon an individual's date and place of birth and the nationality of both parents. (references) |
Korea | Extended families (i.e. parents living with middle-aged married "children" and their grandchildren) are still commonplace, although this is rapidly changing. (references) | |
Women | Cote d'Ivoire | In June Yai visited the regions where FGM still is practiced and reminded practitioners and parents of the dangers of the practice and its illegality. (references) |
Japan | Also, women who are victims of domestic violence typically return to the home of their parents rather than file reports with the authorities. (references) | |
Pakistan | A survey of rural females by the National Institute of Psychology found that 42 percent of parents cited "no financial benefit" as the reason they kept their daughters from attending school, and sent their sons instead. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Tajikistan | They also may employ document falsification services in order to escape restrictions such as those in the UAE, where a woman under 31 may not enter the country unaccompanied by her parents or spouse. (references) |
Panama | In many small rural communities, the entire able-bodied population participates in a harvest, and parents are not willing to leave their children behind unattended. (references) | |
Qatar | Guardians and handlers, who often pose as parents, bring the children into the country and supervise their training. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number -- just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice. Following is the revised edition of the Decalogue, calculated for this meridian. Thou shalt no God but me adore: 'Twere too expensive to have more. No images nor idols make For Robert Ingersoll to break. Take not God's name in vain; select A time when it will have effect. Work not on Sabbath days at all, But go to see the teams play ball. Honor thy parents. That creates For life insurance lower rates. Kill not, abet not those who kill; Thou shalt not pay thy butcher's bill. Kiss not thy neighbor's wife, unless Thine own thy neighbor doth caress Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete Successfully in business. Cheat. Bear not false witness -- that is low -- But "hear 'tis rumored so and so." Cover thou naught that thou hast not By hook or crook, or somehow, got. G.J. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Barbara Eden | I don't know that I had a rough childhood. My parents were children of the Depression. I had a poor childhood. We didn't have a lot of money. But I had a wonderful childhood. I had a family that was very warm and loving. |
Brad Silberling | My mother came to the funeral and my parents both came to the trial. They were very respectful, because they didn't know how much we wanted them there. |
Dennis Miller | Or better yet, make the kids find work so both parents can stay home. |
James Dobson | Well, that's a very good question and many parents are asking it at this time and especially today with the heightened alert, the danger that we're under now. |
Jay McGraw | You know, that's a good question, because I think it spans from however long you're old enough to say, I want to do other than exactly what my parents say, to whenever you move out of the house, or quit dealing under the umbrella of your parents. |
Rich Cohen | We were together every day. We did ditched school, we went to the Cub's games, we experimented with drinking, with drugs, which is like a horrible thing for my parents to find out. |
Rush Limbaugh | The bottom line of the study, which is published in Wednesday's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, is that parents with a choice of vehicles should not use compact pickup trucks. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Our children have been taught to be ashamed of their country, ashamed of their parents, ashamed of America's record at home and of its role in the world. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Struggling parents today worry how they will provide their children the advantages that their parents gave them. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | My plan will give parents more choice, give teachers more flexibility and help communities create new American schools. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Working parents also need quality child care. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | As teachers and parents can tell you, children love to learn, just love it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "PARENTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.93% of the time. "PARENTS" is used about 16,327 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 99.93% | 16,316 | 566 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.06% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16,327 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "PARENTS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Parents | Last name | 130 | 61,320 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "PARENTS": adoptive parents ♦ be foster parents to ♦ birth parents ♦ Child of Impaired Parents ♦ foster parents ♦ love for one's parents ♦ my parents ♦ natural parents ♦ step parents ♦ the parents. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "PARENTS": parents-in-law, parents-out-of-law, parents-to-be. | |
Ending with "PARENTS": foster-parents, grand-parents, step-parents. | |
Containing "PARENTS": Ex-parents-in-law. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
july parents.com | 64 |
bye camp child good parents.com summer | 21 |
fairly odd parents.com | 13 |
camp home parents.com summer welcome | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PARENTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | ouers. (various references) | |
Arabic | الوالدون, الآباء. (various references) | |
Bemba | abafyashi. (various references) | |
Cebuano | mga ginikanan. (various references) | |
Chamorro | mañaina. (various references) | |
Chinese | 父母 (father and mother). (various references) | |
Cornish | kerens. (various references) | |
Czech | rodièe. (various references) | |
Danish | forældre. (various references) | |
Dutch | ouders (parent), ouderpaar. (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | taitamama. (various references) | |
Esperanto | gepatroj. (various references) | |
Faeroese | foreldur. (various references) | |
Finnish | vanhemmat. (various references) | |
French | parents. (various references) | |
Frisian | âlden. (various references) | |
German | Eltern (parent). (various references) | |
Greek | γονείσ, γονείς. (various references) | |
Hebrew | הורים. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szülők (parentage). (various references) | |
Icelandic | foreldrar. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | anaanakkut. (various references) | |
Irish | thuismitheoirí. (various references) | |
Italian | genitori. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 親 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おや, ふたおや (both parents), ふぼ (father and mother), りょうしん (both parents, conscience), ちちはは (father and mother). (various references) | |
Kongo | bibuti. (various references) | |
Lombard | genitor. (various references) | |
Macedonian | roditeli. (various references) | |
Manx | ayr as moir. (various references) | |
Norwegian | foreldre. (various references) | |
Papago | je'e. (various references) | |
Papiamen | mayórnan, mayónan. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arentspay.(various references) | |
Polish | rodzice. (various references) | |
Portuguese | pais (dads, parent). (various references) | |
Provencal | parents. (various references) | |
Romanian | pãrinţi (ancestors, parentage). (various references) | |
Romansch | geniturs. (various references) | |
Ruanda | abavyeyi. (various references) | |
Russian | родитель (parent). (various references) | |
Samoan | matua. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | roditelji. (various references) | |
Spanish | padres (daddies, daddy, dads), padre y madre. (various references) | |
Swedish | föräldrar. (various references) | |
Turkish | ebeveyn (parent), anne ve baba, ana-baba. (various references) | |
Turkmen | ene-atalar, ata-ene. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | батьки. (various references) | |
Welsh | rhieni. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | parentes. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | John Chapter 9, Verse 23 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Dia touto oi goneiV autou eipon oti hlikian ecei auton erwthsate |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Propterea parentes eius dixerunt quia aetatem habet ipsum interrogate |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | For-þam cwæðen hys mages. he hafð ylde axioð hyne sylfe. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Therfor his fadir and modir seiden, That he hath age, axe ye hym. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Therefore sayde his father and mother: he is olde ynough axe him. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | That was the reason why they said, He is old enough; put the question to him. |
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| Language | John Chapter 9, Verse 23 |
| Cebuano | Tungod niini ang iyang mga ginikanan nanag-ingon, "Siya daku na; pangutan-a lang siya ninyo." |
| Croatian | Zbog toga rekoše njegovi roditelji: "Punoljetan je, njega pitajte!" |
| Danish | Derfor sagde hans Forældre: "Han er gammel nok, spørger ham selv!" |
| Dutch | Daarom zeiden zijn ouders: Hij heeft zijn ouderdom, vraagt hemzelven. |
| Finnish | Sentähden hänen vanhempansa sanoivat: "Hänellä on kyllin ikää, kysykää häneltä". |
| French | C`est pourquoi ses parents dirent: Il a de l`âge, interrogez-le lui-même. |
| German | Darum sprachen seine Eltern: er ist alt genug, fraget ihn selbst. |
| Haitian Creole | Se poutèt sa papa l' ak manman l' te di: li ase gran, li ka reponn li menm. Nou mèt mande li. |
| Hungarian | Ezért mondák annak szülei, hogy: Elég idõs, õt kérdezzétek. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Itu sebabnya ibu bapak orang itu berkata, "Ia sudah dewasa; tanya saja kepadanya." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Oleh sebab itu kata ibu bapanya: Ia sudah akil balig, tanyalah dia sendiri. |
| Italian | Per questo i suoi genitori dissero: «Ha l'età, chiedetelo a lui!». |
| Maori | Koia ona matua i mea ai, he kaumatua ia; ui atu ki a ia. |
| Norwegian | derfor sa hans foreldre: Han er gammel nok; spør ham selv! |
| Portuguese | Por isso é que seus pais disseram: Tem idade, perguntai-lho a ele mesmo. |
| Rumanian | De aceea au zis pqrinyii lui: ,,Este kn vkrstq, kntrebayi -l pe el.`` |
| Russian | рПУЕНХ-ФП ТПДЙФЕМЙ ЕЗП Й УЛБЪБМЙ: ПО Ч УПЧЕТЫЕООЩИ МЕФБИ; УБНПЗП УРТПУЙФЕ. |
| Shuar | Nu asamtai ni Aparí "Niisha uuntchakait, nii aniastarum" tiarmiayi. |
| Swahili | Ndiyo maana wazazi wake walisema: "Yeye ni mtu mzima, mwulizeni." |
| Swedish | Därför var det som hans föräldrar sade: "Han är gammal nog; frågen honom själv." |
| Uma | Toe pai' totu'a-na mpo'uli': "Kama-imi-hawo, pekune' -ki hi'a moto-mi-koiwo." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "PARENTS": coparents, godparents, grandparents, houseparents, stepparents. (additional references) | |
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"PARENTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aprent, aprentes, arents, pajent, Parcente, parend, parens, parente, parenti, parentis, parentr, parets, Paretsky, parient, Pariente, parients, paritns, Parkent, parlent, parlents, Perintis, prends, purent. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PARENTS" (pronounced pe"runts) |
| 5 | -r u n t s | adherents, celebrants, emigrants, entrants, grandparents, hydrants, immigrants, migrants, registrants, torrents, tyrants, vagrants, warrants. |
| 4 | -u n t s | accelerants, accidents, accompaniments, accomplishments, abandonments, abatements, abortifacients, accountants, accouterments, achievements, adjustments, adolescents, advancements, advertisements, agents, agreements, ailments, alignments, allotments, amendments, amusements, ancients, announcements, antecedents, antidepressants, antioxidants, apartments, applicants, appointments, arguments, armaments, arraignments, arrangements, aspirants, assailants, assessments, assignments, assistants, astringents, attachments, attendants, basements, battlements, belligerents, blandishments, bombardments, claimants, clients, coefficients, combatants, commandments, commitments, compartments, complainants, complements, components, condiments, consonants, constants, constituents, consultants, contaminants, contestants, continents, contingents, coolants, copayments, cormorants, correspondents, covenants, Crosscurrents, currents, curtailments, decedents, decongestants, defendants, deferments, defoliants, delinquents, deodorants, departments, dependents, deployments, depressants, derailments, descendants, descendents, detergents, determinants, deterrents, developments, deviants, disagreements, disappointments, disbursements, disinfectants, dispersants, displacements, dissidents, divestments, docents, documents, elements, elephants, embarrassments, emplacements, employments, enactments, encampments, encroachments, endorsements, endowments, enforcements, engagements, enhancements, enjoyments, enlargements, enrollments, entanglements, entertainments, enticements, entitlements, environments, equipments, equivalents, escarpments, establishments, experiments, exponents, figments, filaments, fluorescents, formants, fragments, frequents, garments, giants, governments, impairments, impeachments, impediments, implements, impoundments, improvements, incidents, incitements, incompetents, increments, incumbents, independents, indictments, indigents, inducements, infants, informants, infringements, ingredients, inhabitants, inhalants, innocents, inpatients, installments, instruments, insurgents, investments, involvements, irritants, judgements, judgments, lieutenants, ligaments, litigants, lubricants, managements, measurements, merchants, militants, miscreants, misjudgments, misstatements, moments, monuments, movements, mutants, noncombatants, nonresidents, nutrients, occupants, opponents, ornaments, overpayments, overstatements, oxidants, pageants, parliaments, participants, patents, patients, pavements, payments, peasants, pennants, pheasants, pigments, placements, pollutants, postponements, precedents, predicaments, prepayments, presents, procurements, pronouncements, propellants, proponents, protestants, punishments, readjustments, reagents, realignments, reassignments, recipients, redeployments, reenactments, refinements, refreshments, refrigerants, Regents, regiments, reimbursements, reinforcements, remnants, repayments, replacements, requirements, resentments, residents, respondents, restatements, retirements, retrenchments, rodents, rudiments, sacraments, savants, sealants, sediments, segments, sentiments, sergeants, serpents, servants, settlements, shipments, solvents, statements, stimulants, students, subcontinents, succulents, supergiants, superintendents, supplements, talents, temperaments, tenants, tenements, tournaments, transients, treatments, undercurrents, undergarments, underpayments, variants. |
| 3 | -n t s | accents, accounts, affronts, amounts, ants, appoints, aunts, ballpoints, blueprints, blunts, brents, cents, chants, checkpoints, circumvents, comments, complaints, compliments, confidants, confronts, consents, constraints, contents, counts, croissants, dachshunds, debutantes, dents, descents, disappoints, discontents, discounts, dissents, eggplants, events, ferments, fingerprints, flaunts, flints, fonts, footprints, forints, fronts, grants, grunts, haunts, hints, hunts, implants, imprints, intents, invents, jaunts, joints, laments, malcontents, mints, misrepresents, mounts, paints, pants, percents, pinpoints, pints, plants, points, portents, presidents, prevents, prints, punts, quints, recounts, rents, represents, reprints, resents, restaurants, restraints, saints, scents, splints, sprints, standpoints, stints, storefronts, stunts, sweatpants, taints, taunts, tents, tints, torments, transplants, underpants, vents, viewpoints, wants, waterfronts. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: arpents, entraps, pastern, trepans. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-n-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: antres, arpens, arpent, astern, enrapt, entrap, parent, paster, patens, paters, prates, repast, sprent, sterna, tapers, trapes, trepan. | |
-2 letters: antes, antre, apers, apres, apter, arpen, aspen, asper, aster, earns, etnas, napes, nares, nates, neaps, nears, neats, nerts, panes, pants, pares, parse, parts, paste, paten, pater, pates, peans, pears, peart, peats, prase, prate, prats. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-n-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: operants, painters, panthers, pantries, partners, pasterns, patterns, pertains, pinaster, planters, pristane, pronates, proteans, raptness, repaints, replants, transept, trapnest, trepangs. | |
+2 letters: antipress, apartness, aperients, atropines, catnapers, coparents, dipterans, interlaps, pantdress, paraments, patentors, patroness, patronise, peasantry, pentarchs, perianths, personate, pinasters, pistareen, plankters, portances, prankster, preenacts, pretrains, pristanes, repasting, sparteine, spearmint, terrapins, transepts, transpire, transpose, trapesing, traplines, trapnests, triplanes, triptanes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Names: Frequency | 17. Expressions 18. Expressions: Internet 19. Translations: Modern 20. Translations: Ancient | 21. Bible Trace 22. Derivations 23. Rhymes 24. Anagrams | 25. Bibliography |
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