Meaning of पालक in English

To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.
To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.
To be nourished or trained up together.
Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood.
A forester.
One who, or that which, fosters.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant spinach, or the family of plants to which it belongs.
Alt. of Spinage
One who guards, preserves, or secures; one to whom any person or thing is committed for protection, security, or preservation from injury; a warden.
One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs.
Performing, or appropriate to, the office of a protector; as, a guardian care.
A steward; a purveyor, particularly of a college or Inn of Court.
One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother.
That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice.
Of or pertaining to a parent or to parents; as, parental authority; parental obligations.
Becoming to, or characteristic of, parents; tender; affectionate; devoted; as, parental care.
Alt. of Parenthetical
Something unimportant, incidental, or superfluous.

English usage of पालक