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FATHER
Father, Father-God, Fatherhood
(noun) God when considered as the first person in the Trinity; âhear our prayers, Heavenly Fatherâ
don, father
(noun) the head of an organized crime family
father, male parent, begetter
(noun) a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father); âhis father was born in Atlantaâ
Father, Padre
(noun) âFatherâ is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); âPadreâ is frequently used in the military
father
(noun) a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization; âthe tennis fathers ruled in her favorâ; âthe city fathers endorsed the proposalâ
forefather, father, sire
(noun) the founder of a family; âkeep the faith of our forefathersâ
founder, beginner, founding father, father
(noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution; âGeorge Washington is the father of his countryâ
beget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth
(verb) make (offspring) by reproduction; âAbraham begot Isaacâ; âJohn fathered four daughtersâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
father (plural fathers)
A (generally human) male who begets a child.
A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
A term of respectful address for a priest.
A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
The founder of a discipline or science.
Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
Something inanimate that begets.
A senator of Ancient Rome.
Synonyms
• (parent): see father
• (most significant thing): see mother and granddaddy
Antonyms
• (with regards to gender) mother
• (with regards to ancestry) son, daughter, child
Hypernyms
• (a male parent): parent
Verb
father (third-person singular simple present fathers, present participle fathering, simple past and past participle fathered)
To be a father to; to sire.
(figuratively) To give rise to.
To act as a father; to support and nurture.
To provide with a father.
To adopt as one's own.
Anagrams
• afther, fareth, hafter, trefah
Proper noun
Father
(Christianity) God, the father of Creation
A title given to priests.
One of the chief ecclesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ.
One's father.
(Wicca) One of the triune gods of the Horned God in Wicca, representing a man, younger than the elderly Sage and older than the boyish Master.
Antonyms
• (Wicca): Mother
Anagrams
• afther, fareth, hafter, trefah
Source: Wiktionary
Fa"ther, n. Etym: [OE. fader, AS. fĂŠder; akin to OS. fadar, D. vader, OHG. fatar, G. vater, Icel. Fa Sw. & Dan. fader, OIr. athir, L. pater, Gr. pitr, perh. fr. Skr. pa protect. Papa, Paternal, Patriot, Potential, Pablum.]
1. One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent. A wise son maketh a glad father. Prov. x. 1.
2. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors. David slept with his fathers. 1 Kings ii. 10. Abraham, who is the father of us all. Rom. iv. 16.
3. One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection. I was a father to the poor. Job xxix. 16. He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house. Gen. xiv. 8.
4. A respectful mode of address to an old man. And Joash the king og Israel came down unto him [Elisha], . . . and said, O my father, my father! 2 Kings xiii. 14.
5. A senator of ancient Rome.
6. A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc. Bless you, good father friar ! Shak.
7. One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.
8. One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher. The father of all such as handle the harp and organ. Gen. iv. 21. Might be the father, Harry, to that thought. Shak. The father of good news. Shak.
9. The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity. Our Father, which art in heaven. Matt. vi. 9. Now had the almighty Father from above . . . Bent down his eye. Milton. Adoptive father, one who adopts the child of another, treating it as his own.
– Apostolic father, Conscript fathers, etc. See under Apostolic, Conscript, etc.
– Father in God, a title given to bishops.
– Father of lies, the Devil.
– Father of the bar, the oldest practitioner at the bar.
– Fathers of the city, the aldermen.
– Father of the Faithful. (a) Abraham. Rom. iv. Gal. iii. 6-9. (b) Mohammed, or one of the sultans, his successors.
– Father of the house, the member of a legislative body who has had the longest continuous service.
– Most Reverend Father in God, a title given to archbishops and metropolitans, as to the archbishops of Canterbury and York.
– Natural father, the father of an illegitimate child.
– Putative father, one who is presumed to be the father of an illegitimate child; the supposed father.
– Spiritual father. (a) A religious teacher or guide, esp. one instrumental in leading a soul to God. (b) (R. C. Ch.) A priest who hears confession in the sacrament of penance.
– The Holy Father (R. C. Ch.), the pope.
Fa"ther, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fathered; p. pr. & vb. n. Fathering.]
1. To make one's self the father of; to beget. Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base. Shak.
2. To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.). Men of wit Often fathered what he writ. Swift.
3. To provide with a father. [R.] Think you I am no stronger than my sex, Being so fathered and so husbanded Shak. To father on or upon, to ascribe to, or charge upon, as one's offspring or work; to put or lay upon as being responsible. "Nothing can be so uncouth or extravagant, which may not be fathered on some fetch of wit, or some caprice of humor." Barrow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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