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n. a person who takes care of a child when the normal parents are unavailable see also foster parent
Usage examples of "surrogate parent".
As the game continued, I grew fonder and fonder of the ugly, gnarled dwarf who'd become my surrogate parent.
Professor Du Havel has agreed to stand in as a surrogate parent, and Lieutenant Griggs, the commander of the princess' security team, has been kept fully informed of my plans.
The machine that served as surrogate parent and instructor stood in one corner, an awkward parody of a human, with limbs too long and head too small.
Years after his return to human society, Holt had again essayed a return visit to the 'Reen, The nomads traveled a regular, if wide-ranging, circuit and he had found both the original band and his surviving surrogate parent.
The humans were also connected with the mandate through their surrogate parent, and in this manner they were quiescent.
He looked into Treyvan's soft-edged raptor eyes, and saw there the friend, the surrogate parent, the ever-present, gentle guide.
And with their arrival, they would assume the role of Crechem: surrogate parent, carer, guide and teacher, always for more than their own biological offspring, never for greatly extended periods, each adult member of the Caravan contributing to a collective child nurturing.
A father image to the boy, a surrogate parent who taught and held a tarnished glory.
The Flenser Fragment claimed it was the physical contact, that the pups were reacting to the alien as a surrogate parent, thoughtless though the alien was.
She had wanted him to call her Liz, a diminutive that only her father had used, but Qwilleran had no desire to be a surrogate parent.