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- Dictionarypa·ren·tal/pəˈren(t)l/
adjective
- 1. relating to a person's parent or parents: "parental responsibility"
noun
- 1. a person's parents: "I may revisit this diner if the parentals are in town"
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proper to or characteristic of a parent: parental feelings. having the relation of a parent. Genetics. pertaining to the sequence of generations preceding the filial generation, each generation being designated by a P followed by a subscript number indicating its place in the sequence.
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Parental home definition: a school for problem children.....
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Learn the noun and verb meanings of parent, as well as related phrases, synonyms, and word history. See examples of parent in a sentence and related articles on parenting and family.
Parental means relating to parents or to being a parent. Learn how to use this word in sentences and find out how to say it in different languages.
Parental means relating to parents or to being a parent. Learn how to use this adjective in different contexts with examples from the Cambridge English Corpus and other sources.
Someone who's parental acts the way a typical mother or father does. A parental kindergarten teacher might pat students' heads and call them "sweetheart." You can use the adjective parental to describe a motherly or fatherly person, like your parental uncle who attends all your school plays.
Parental is used to describe something that relates to parents in general, or to one or both of the parents of a particular child. Medical treatment was sometimes given to children without parental consent.
Definition of parental adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
