# parented

Pronunciation: say "PAIR-uhnt-id" US /ˈpɛɹ.ənt.ɪd/, UK /ˈpɛə.ɹənt.ɪd/

## Verb

1. Simple past and past participle of parent. — simple past and past participle of parent
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of parent. Use it for the past, or after has, have, had, is, was or were.
   - _Their grandmother parented them after the accident left the children orphaned._
   - _He felt he had parented his younger siblings more than his own father ever did._

## Adjective

2. With the number or type of parents indicated by the rest of the compound.
   - Simple: Having a certain number or kind of parents.
   - _The survey compared two-parented households with single-parented ones across several income brackets._
   - _Researchers found no meaningful gap in school performance between same-sex-parented and opposite-sex-parented children._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/parented (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).