HOW TO PRONOUNCE
parents
/ˈpɛɹ.ənts/
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What does parents mean?
noun
- plural of parent
verb
- third-person singular simple present indicative of parent
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈpɛɹ.ənts/
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“You don’t feel, Peter,” she said falteringly, “that you would like to say anything to my parents about a very sweet subject?”
Shakespeare of Stratford was reared in a house which had no use for books, since its owners, his parents, were without education.
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When I had attained the age of seventeen my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt.
That the man and woman were husband and wife, and the parents of the girl in arms there could be little doubt.
“American girls are as clever at concealing their parents, as English women are at concealing their past,” he said, rising to go.