Adoptive parent
Adoptive parent noun - A person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child.
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Parents and adoptive parent are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Parents" with "Adoptive parent", this terms are similar.
Parents
Adoptive parent and parents are semantically related. You can use "Adoptive parent" instead a noun "Parents".
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- In Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger, Ryouga has been the adoptive parent figure to his niece Mai for most of her life, since her parents were killed when she was a baby.
Source: Nephewism - An Aesop: When Blood complains about Mucor, Silk lectures him that adoptive parents can't use the excuses natural parents do, such as "I didn't plan on this" or "she didn't turn out the way I expected," since by definition an adoptive parent is electively a parent.
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Samus Aran of the Metroid franchise has the Chozo elder Old Bird as her adoptive parent and mentor after her biological parents are killed by Space Pirates.
Source: Parental Substitute
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