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Father

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Noun

1. begetter, father, male parent

a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

Example Sentences:
'his father was born in Atlanta'

2. father, forefather, sire

the founder of a family

Example Sentences:
'keep the faith of our forefathers'

3. father, padre

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

4. church father, father, father of the church

(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

5. father

a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization

Example Sentences:
'the tennis fathers ruled in her favor'
'the city fathers endorsed the proposal'

6. father, father-god, fatherhood

God when considered as the first person in the Trinity

Example Sentences:
'hear our prayers, Heavenly Father'

7. beginner, father, founder, founding father

a person who founds or establishes some institution

Example Sentences:
'George Washington is the father of his country'

8. don, father

the head of an organized crime family

Verb

9. beget, bring forth, engender, father, generate, get, mother, sire

make children

Example Sentences:
'Abraham begot Isaac'
'Men often father children but don't recognize them'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Father

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noun
1. 
a male parent
2. 
a person who founds a line or family; forefather
3. 
any male acting in a paternal capacity
▶ Related adjective: paternal
4. (often capital)
a respectful term of address for an old man
5. 
a male who originates something
the father of modern psychology
6. 
a leader of an association, council, etc; elder
a city father
7. British
the eldest or most senior member in a society, profession, etc
father of the bar
8. (often plural)
a senator or patrician in ancient Rome
9.  the father of
verb (transitive)
10. 
to procreate or generate (offspring); beget
11. 
to create, found, originate, etc
12. 
to act as a father to
13. 
to acknowledge oneself as father or originator of
14. (foll by on or upon)
to impose or place without a just reason
noun
1. 
God, esp when considered as the first person of the Christian Trinity
2. Also called: Church Father
any of the writers on Christian doctrine of the pre-Scholastic period
3. 
a title used for Christian priests

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Father

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noun
1. 
a man who has begotten a child; esp., a man as he is related to his child or children
2. 
a. 
a stepfather
b. 
an adoptive father
c. 
a father-in-law
3. 
the male parent of a plant or animal
4. 
a person regarded as a male parent; protector
5.  [F-]; Epithet
God, or God as the first person in the Trinity
6. 
a forefather; ancestor
usually used in pl.
7. 
an originator, founder, or inventor
8. 
any man deserving of respect or reverence because of age, position, etc.
9. 
a senator of ancient Rome
10. 
any of the leaders of a city, assembly, etc.
usually used in pl.
11.  [often F-]
any of the early Christian religious writers considered reliable authorities on the doctrines and teachings of the Church
12.  [often F-]
a Christian priest
, used esp. as a title
verb transitive
13. 
to be the father of; beget
14. 
to look after or care for as a father does
15. 
to bring into being; found, originate, or invent
16. 
to take the responsibility for
17. 
to impose improperly as a responsibility; foist
the mistake was fathered on him

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Father

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n.
1.
a. A male whose sperm unites with an egg, producing an embryo.
b. A male whose impregnation of a female results in the birth of a child.
c. A man who adopts a child.
d. A man who raises a child.
2. A male parent of an animal.
3. A male ancestor: He has died and now sleeps with his fathers.
4.
a. A man who creates, originates, or founds something: Chaucer is considered the father of English poetry.
b. A man who serves or is thought of as a protector: beloved as the father of the nation.
5. Father Christianity
a. God.
b. The first person of the Christian Trinity.
6.
a. An elderly or venerable man. Used as a title of respect.
b. One of the leading men, as of a city: the town fathers.
c. or Father A church father.
d. A member of the senate in ancient Rome.
7. Abbr. Fr.
a. A priest or clergyman in the Roman Catholic or Anglican churches.
b. Used as a title and form of address with or without the clergyman's name.
v. fa·thered, fa·ther·ing, fa·thers
v.tr.
1.
a. To provide the sperm that unites with an egg to produce (an embryo, fetus, or child).
b. To act or serve as a father to (a child).
2. To create, found, or originate: father a political movement.
3. To attribute the paternity, creation, or origin of: "[Swift's] ideas about the education of the young are fathered on to the Lilliputians" (George Orwell).
v.intr.
To act or serve as a father.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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