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Father   /fˈɑðər/   Listen
Father

noun
1.
A male parent (also used as a term of address to your father).  Synonyms: begetter, male parent.
2.
The founder of a family.  Synonyms: forefather, sire.
3.
'Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); 'Padre' is frequently used in the military.  Synonym: Padre.
4.
(Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom.  Synonyms: Church Father, Father of the Church.
5.
A person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization.  "The city fathers endorsed the proposal"
6.
God when considered as the first person in the Trinity.  Synonyms: Father-God, Fatherhood.
7.
A person who founds or establishes some institution.  Synonyms: beginner, founder, founding father.
8.
The head of an organized crime family.  Synonym: don.
verb
(past & past part. fathered; pres. part. fathering)
1.
Make children.  Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, generate, get, mother, sire.  "Men often father children but don't recognize them"



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"Father" Quotes from Famous Books



... personally," he said, with a smile for which she felt grateful. "As I say, it's natural for them to think that way, perhaps. Your father, however, is not a lawyer; and, when I went into his room at your request, he took pains to offend me, insult me, several times." That brought a faint flush to her face. "So, that leaves only you to give me facts which ...
— No Clue - A Mystery Story • James Hay

... ELIZABETH. Come, Father, such talk is hardly suited to little girls, who should know better than to ask so many ...
— Six Plays • Florence Henrietta Darwin

... it isn't true, and of course you can't believe it," went on Frank. "I am sure that a day or two will change things that look so black for me now. All that I am worrying about is that this affair may get to father and mother. It would simply worry them both to death, and it mustn't be. I hope you wouldn't be so cruel, so wicked, as ...
— The Boys of Bellwood School • Frank V. Webster

... pair of silver-backed brushes and a hand-glass that had belonged to an aunt, a small leather case in which she kept some modest trinkets—a pearl brooch, a bracelet or two, and a locket that had been her mother's—and, standing on either side of the glass, two photographs of her father ...
— Harvest • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... Sir, by your looks" (or as the case happened) my father would say—"that you do not heartily subscribe to this opinion of mine—which, to those," he would add, "who have not carefully sifted it to the bottom,—I own has an air more of fancy than of solid reasoning in it; and ...
— Literary Remains (1) • Coleridge


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