single parent

noun

: a parent who lives with a child or children and no husband, wife, or partner

Examples of single parent in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Dating as a single parent is already fraught with the dilemma of how, when and if to disclose the existence of your child, a decision as much about the child’s welfare as anything else, but which also tends to confer the status of a secret that must be managed on single parenthood. —Catherine Bray, Variety, 24 May 2025

There was no mention of how the government might aid families during school closures, or, for example, about what a single parent with a job as a cashier in a grocery store and a 4-year-old at home was supposed to do. —David Zweig, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2025

Matty Crawford’s film so viscerally depicts the ‘too real’ horror of aging as an immigrant single parent contending with an escalating and overwhelming level of loneliness and discomfort. —Matthew Carey, Deadline, 30 Apr. 2025

Following the passing of his wife, a devoted father learns to raise his son with Down syndrome as a single parent. —Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 23 Apr. 2025

Rhymes for single parent

• aberrant
• apparent
• declarant
• grandparent
• stepparent
• transparent
• errant
• semitransparent