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single parent
1noun
- a parent or guardian who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner:
Being a single parent isn’t easy.
single-parent
2[ sing-guhl-pair-uhnt, ‐-par-uhnt ]
adjective
- of or noting a family in which a parent brings up a child or children alone, without a partner: a single-parent household.
a single-parent family;
a single-parent household.
single parent
noun
- Also called (NZ)solo parent
- a person who has a dependent child or dependent children and who is widowed, divorced, or unmarried
- ( as modifier )
a single-parent family
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Word History and Origins
Origin of single parent1
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Example Sentences
If I could have every single parent in the United States watch this program, I would.
Those words might not sit well with single parent and divorced Catholics, and groups supporting non-traditional families.
Single-parent, same-sex, and common-law families barely penetrated public consciousness, much less the Hebrew lexicon.
The fact that the new president of the United States was the product of a single-parent home was cited by both sides.
So the chances of me being a married "single" parent are very, very high—and I don't want to be a single parent.
Ultimately “Delbrck went so far,” says Professor Ripley, “as to deny that any single parent language ever existed in fact”.
Once isolated, such single-parent races are constant from seed and remain true to their type.
Its care, its nurture, its education is too important even to be risked with a single parent.
Every Alcyonarian colony is developed by budding from a single parent zooid.
In a world of choice and free movement, children are more likely to come from families that will consist of a single parent.
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