PARENT

[noun] [C] - a mother or father of a person or an animalThe teacher had asked to see the boy's parents.I'm going to meet his parents for the first time this weekend.If both parents have blue eyes, their children will have blue eyes.A parent company is a company which controls other smaller companies.A parent-teacher association ( PTA), (esp. US) parent-teacher organization ( PTO), (ANZ) Parents and Citizens ( P and C), is an organization to which the parents of children at a school and the teachers at the school can belong, and which tries to help the school, esp. by arranging activities that raise money for it.