Brood and Parent

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Brood

Brood noun - The young of an animal cared for at one time.
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Synonyms for Brood
Parent is an antonym for brood in cluster of children topic.
Nearby Words: brooding, broody, brooded, brooder

Parent

Parent noun - A father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian.
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Antonyms for Parent
Brood is an antonym for parent.
Nearby Words: parentage, parenting, parenthood, parental, parentally
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How words are described

dead dead brood dead parent
new new brood new parent
remaining remaining brood remaining parent
different different brood different parent
Other adjectives: demonic.

Both words in one sentence

  • The Assimilator This does not so much produce a juvenile hatchling as it does turn the unfortunate host into a Brood, which has all the memories and skills of its "parent".
    Source: The Assimilator
  • Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong Apparently a super-space-uber-wasp turned up at his office one day to tell him that he'd been selected as 'brood parent' for the wasp's eggs.
    Source: Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong
  • Any child of the targeted creature (known as a Brood Brother) is less of the parent race and more Tyranid, until by the fourth generation Brood Brothers (well, Sisters) give birth to purestrain Genestealers.
    Source: Interspecies Romance / Tabletop Games
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Antonyms for brood


Antonyms for parent

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