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Definition: Parental |
ParentalAdjective1. (genetics) designating the generation of organisms from which hybrid offspring are produced. 2. Relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent; "parental guidance". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "parental" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1649. (references) |
Etymology: Parental \Pa*ren"tal\, adjective. [Latin expression parentalis.]. (references) |
Synonyms: ParentalSynonyms: maternal (adj), paternal (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: filial (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Love | Maternal love, gr/storge/gr, parental love; young love, puppy love. |
Paternity | Adjective: paternal, parental; maternal; family, ancestral, linear, patriarchal. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Parental |
| English words defined with "parental": acquiescent, age of consent, anaclisis ♦ biddable ♦ compliant ♦ filial, foster, fostered ♦ introject ♦ parentally ♦ Storge, surrogate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "parental": Candles ♦ Dependency Override ♦ Family Leave, Founder Effect ♦ genetic gain ♦ Lentil ♦ outer seed coat ♦ Phylogenetic species concept, Pieta', Presumed Consent ♦ replication fork ♦ Supply of workers ♦ transgenic organism, transgressive segregation, transgressive variation ♦ Wedding ♦ Y fork. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Parental" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (parental), Portuguese (parental). |
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Screenplays | Now, if you choose not to respond to my parental authority, I should warn you, I have mind altering drugs in the other room and I'm not afraid to use them (Everwood; writing credit: Michael Green; Rina Mimoun) | |
Clever | Parental Observation: A child will not spill on a dirty floor. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Warning: Parental Advisory (2002) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Don't Destroy Parental Powers By Neglect : Gonorrhea The Great Sterilizer. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Parental guidance" by Feike Kloostra Commentary: "A poster with detail of parental guidance." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Samuel Butler | Some people seem compelled by unkind fate to parental servitude for life. There is no form of penal servitude much worse than this. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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John Locke | 1690 | This may give one reason to ask, whether this might not be more properly called parental power? for whatever obligation nature and the right of generation lays on children, it must certainly bind them equal to both the concurrent causes of it. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | All but four States permit parental refusal. (references) | |
This high referral rate may cause undue parental anxiety. (references) | ||
Some studies have used parental reports as a means of evaluation. (references) | ||
Children | Dominican Republic | Some of these minors are lured from their parental homes; others are already on the street. (references) |
Uganda | The marriage of young girls by parental arrangement is common, especially in rural areas. (references) | |
Uganda | LDU's may recruit children under the age of 18 with parental consent. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Denmark | The Evangelical Lutheran faith is taught in public schools, but students may withdraw from religious classes with parental consent. (references) |
Economic History | Honduras | The Children's Code (September 10, 1996) prohibits a person of 14 years of age or less from working, even with parental permission, and establishes prison sentences of 3 to 5 years for individuals who allow children to work illegally. (references) |
Denmark | The Government has succeeded in tightening availability to work rules and has made the government-funded parental leave program much less attractive than before. (references) | |
Human Rights | Paraguay | The armed forces no longer allow 17-year-olds to enlist with parental permission. (references) |
Colombia | In 1999 the Government announced that no one under the age of 18 could enter military service, even with the consent of a parent; previously, individuals over 16 years of age but below age 18 could volunteer to join the military with parental permission but were barred from serving in combat. (references) | |
Political Economy | DENMARK | Danish law provides for government-funded parental and educational leave programs. (references) |
Travel | Latvia | CHILDREN'S ISSUES: For information on international adoption of children and international parental child abduction, please refer to our Internet site at http://travel.state.gov/children's_issues.html or telephone at (202) 736-7000. (references) |
Ecuador | For information on international adoption of children and international parental child abduction, please refer to the Department of State's Internet site at http://travel.state.gov/children's_issues.html or telephone (202) 736-7000. (references) | |
Women | Pakistan | The father reportedly opposed his daughter's efforts to choose a spouse without parental consent. (references) |
Worker Rights | Sweden | Children as young as 13 years may work part- time or in "light" work with parental permission. (references) |
Tanzania | Children between the ages of 12 and 15 may be employed on a daily wage and on a day-to-day basis, but they must have parental permission and return to the residence of their guardian at night. (references) | |
Kyrgyz Republic | The minimum age for employment varies with the type of work, but is no lower than 14. The Labor Code is contradictory in the requirements it sets for the minimum age of employment of youths in work that could harm their physical and moral well being (i.e. employment in casinos, bars, night clubs, etc.). Article 285 states that such work is prohibited for those under age 21; however, Article 319 prohibits such employment for those under age 18. According to the Labor Code, children between ages 14 and 16 are permitted to perform strenuous work with parental consent. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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James Monroe | 1817-1825 | The process must commence with the infant state, through whom some effect may be wrought on the parental. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Parental" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.40% of the time. "Parental" is used about 1,328 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.4% | 1,320 | 6,008 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.6% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,328 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "parental": divestment of parental responsibility(with the parents'consent) ♦ divestment of parental responsibility(without the parents'consent) ♦ parental care ♦ parental leave ♦ parental leave benefit ♦ parental quality ♦ parental rights. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "parental": parental-authority, parental-leave. | |
Ending with "parental": co-parental, inter-parental, near-parental, non-parental. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "parental"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | prindëror (fatherly), prej prindi. (various references) | |
Arabic | والدي, أبوي (fatherly, pater, paternal, paternalist). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | родителски, майчински (maternal, motherly), бащински (fatherly, paternal). (various references) | |
Chinese | 父母亲 (Parentally). (various references) | |
Czech | rodièovský, otcovský (fatherly, paternal), mateřský (maternal, motherly). (various references) | |
Danish | primær magma (parent magma, parental magma), P-Generation (parental generation), parentalt X-kromosom (parental X-chromosome), parental prægning (genomic mark, parental imprint), rammeaftale vedrørende forædreorlov (Framework Agreement on parental leave), foraeldreorlov (parental leave), forældreret over mindreårig (parental authorisation for minor), forældreorlov (parental leave, parental leave benefit), forældreorganisme (parent organism, parental organism), forældregeneration (parental generation), forældrecelle (parental cell), forældrebetaling (parental contribution), forældreønsker (parental wishes). (various references) | |
Dutch | ouderlijk, ouderlýk. (various references) | |
Esperanto | gepatra. (various references) | |
Finnish | parentaalinen sormenjälki (genomic mark, parental imprint), vanhempien lupa alaikäiselle (parental authorisation for minor), vanhempaispolvi (parental generation), vanhempainloma (parental leave), vanhempain rakkaus (parental love), vanhemman aseman väärinkäyttö (misuse of parental authority), tekemästä vanhempainlomaa koskevasta puitesopimuksesta (Framework Agreement on parental leave), hoitovapaaetuudet (parental leave benefit), aviottomana syntynyt sisar (half-sister born out of parental wedlock), alkumagma (parent magma, parental magma). (various references) | |
French | parental, de parents. (various references) | |
German | elterlich. (various references) | |
Greek | γονικόσ, γονικός, μητρικόσ (maternal, mother, motherly, uterine), πατρικόσ (fatherly, paternal). (various references) | |
Hebrew | של ההורים, הורי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | atyai (fatherly, paternal). (various references) | |
Indonesian | keayahan (fatherhood). (various references) | |
Italian | parentale, di genitore. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 自由結婚 , 親権者 (person exercising parental authority), 親権 (parental authority), 親の情 (parental love), 親心 (parental love or affection). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おやのじょう (parental love), おやごころ (parental love or affection), しんけんしゃ (person exercising parental authority), しんけん (divine right, divine sword, earnestness, parental authority, seriousness), じゆうけっこん. (various references) | |
Korean | 어버이. (various references) | |
Manx | ayrey as mayrey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arentalpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | parental, relativo aos pais, maternal (maternal, motherly). (various references) | |
Romanian | patern (paternal, paternalist, paternally), pãrintesc (fatherlike, fatherly, paternal, paternalist), matern (maternal, motherly), de pãrinte, de origine (originating), ca de pãrinte. (various references) | |
Russian | родительский. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | roditeljski (parent). (various references) | |
Spanish | paternal (fatherly, genitive, paternal). (various references) | |
Swedish | moderlig (maternal, motherly), faderlig (fatherly, paternal), föräldra-. (various references) | |
Turkish | ebeveyne ait, ana ve babaya ait. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | що є джерелом, материнський (maternal, motherly, native), батьківський (fatherly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "parental": parentally. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "parental": biparental, grandparental, uniparental. (additional references) | |
Words containing "parental": biparentally, uniparentally. (additional references) | |
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"Parental" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mariental, paranotal, Paranthan, Pararnali, Parcente, pareital, pareneal, parente, parenteal, parenti, parently, parentral, paretal, parictal, Pariente, Pertenhall, pimental, pyrantel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "parental" (pronounced pere"ntul) |
| 5 | -e" n t u l | accidental, coincidental, compartmental, continental, dental, detrimental, developmental, elemental, environmental, experimental, fundamental, gentle, incidental, incremental, supplemental, temperamental, instrumental, intercontinental, intergovernmental, judgmental, lentil, mental, monumental, nongovernmental, occidental, oriental, ornamental, regimental, rental, sentimental, transcendental, transcontinental, unsentimental. |
| 4 | -n t u l | infantile, Cantle, consonantal, disgruntle, dismantle, frontal, governmental, horizontal, lintel, mantel, mantle, periodontal, prefrontal, quintal, Wintle. |
| 3 | -t u l | infertile, acquittal, anecdotal, artiodactyl, battle, beetle, belittle, betel, bicoastal, bottle, brattle, Bristol, brittle, brutal, butyl, capital, Capitol, cattle, chattel, chortle, coastal, committal, congenital, crustal, crystal, digital, distal, ductile, embattle, entitle, extramarital, fatal, fertile, fetal, fractal, futile, genital, glottal, hospital, hostel, hostile, hurtle, immortal, immotile, spittle, startle, subtitle, subtle, tactile, tattle, kettle, Kittel, Kittle, little, marital, metal, mettle, mortal, motile, Myrtle, Natal, neonatal, nettle, noncommittal, nonfatal, nonvolatile, occipital, orbital, parietal, pedestal, petal, Pistil, pistol, pivotal, portal, postal, postnatal, Pottle, prattle, premarital, prenatal, projectile, rattle, rebuttal, recital, rectal, resettle, scuttle, settle, shuttle, skeletal, skittle, societal, throttle, title, tittle, tootle, total, transmittal, turtle, unsettle, unsubtle, varietal, vegetal, versatile, vestal, vital, vittle, volatile, Whittle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: parlante, paternal, prenatal. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-l-n-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: apteral, planate, plantar, planter, platane, preanal, replant. | |
-2 letters: antler, antral, apneal, arpent, earlap, enrapt, entrap, lanate, learnt, palate, palter, parent, partan, planar, planer, planet, platan, platen, plater, rental, replan, tarnal, tarpan, trapan, trepan. | |
-3 letters: alane, alant, alate, alert, altar, alter, anear, antae, antra, antre, apart, apnea, apter, areal, arena, arpen, artal, artel, laten. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-l-n-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: perinatal, planetary. | |
+2 letters: apparently, biparental, intraplate, parentally, parenteral, parliament, paternally, penetralia, planetaria, pleasanter, pleasantry, prenatally, transeptal. | |
+3 letters: apartmental, explanatory, operational, parliaments, pastureland, paternalism, paternalist, patrilineal, pentahedral, perinatally, phalanstery, planarities, planetarium, plantigrade, proletarian, rataplanned, transalpine, uniparental. | |
+4 letters: antiparallel, antiparticle, antipleasure, biparentally, departmental, inapparently, malapertness, parenterally, pastoralness, pasturelands, paternalisms, paternalists, perorational, planetariums, plantigrades, pleasantries, premalignant, proletarians, protonematal, replantation, reputational, supernatural, transplanted, transplanter, transposable, uncapturable, unrepeatable. | |
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