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How to pronounce “parent”

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Pronunciation guide for parent

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of parent with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Nim Tottenhamit might be the grandparent, and so on.
Definition summary: (often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.). [from 15th c.]

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Nim Tottenham

it might be the grandparent, and so on.

[Noun]
(often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.). [from 15th c.]
(often in the plural) A person who has had a baby; this person in relation to their child or children.
A surrogate parent.
A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.
(obsolete) A relative. [15th–18th c.]
The source or origin of something. [from 16th c.]
(biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended. [from 17th c.]
(attributive) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector. [1]
(computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node. [from 20th c.]
(physics) The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.
[Verb]
To act as parent, to raise or rear.
(programming) To provide a parent object for one or more other objects, which become the children.