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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

... "Father of the Forest," which has fallen perhaps a century or more, exhibits the grandest dimensions of any known tree. By measuring its remains, and allowing for the probable thickness of the bark, it seems to have been about thirty-five feet diameter near the ground, at ninety feet up fifteen feet, ...

— Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) - Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky • Various

... she is the soul of purity and truth—but rather difficult to—I hardly know how to express it, really, Agnes. She is a timid little thing, and easily disturbed and frightened. Some time ago, before her father's death, when I thought it right to mention to her—but I'll tell you, if you will bear with ...

— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens

... That step-father of his was a well-to-do manufacturer of shoddy in Leeds, one Hibbert, a good-natured man on the whole, but of limited horizon. He had married a widow above his own social standing, and for a long time was content to supply her idolized son with the means ...

— The Emancipated • George Gissing

... Assyria, the dominant power of the East. When this great empire began to decline Babylon rose for the last time. Media and Persia were equally ready to throw off the Assyrian yoke, and at length the allied armies of Cyaxares and the father of Nebuchadnezzar captured and destroyed the capital of ...

— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy

... allow the war to end and kept up the blockade for months after the cessation of hostilities, has made Bolshevism a danger to the world. War is its father, famine its mother, despair its godfather. The poison of Bolshevism will course in the veins of Europe ...

— In the World War • Count Ottokar Czernin

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