father
noun
[ ˈfɑːðə ]
• a man in relation to his child or children.
• "Margaret's father died at an early age"
Similar:
male parent,
birth father,
biological father,
begetter,
patriarch,
paterfamilias,
dad,
daddy,
pop,
poppa,
pa,
old boy,
old man,
adoptive father,
foster father,
stepfather,
pater,
• (often as a title or form of address) a priest.
• "pray for me, father"
Similar:
priest,
pastor,
parson,
clergyman,
father confessor,
churchman,
man of the cloth,
man of God,
cleric,
minister,
preacher,
abbé,
curé,
reverend,
padre,
• early Christian theologians (in particular of the first five centuries) whose writings are regarded as especially authoritative.
father
verb
• (of a man) cause a pregnancy resulting in the birth of (a child).
• "he fathered three children"
Similar:
be the father of,
sire,
engender,
generate,
bring into being,
bring into the world,
give life to,
spawn,
procreate,
reproduce,
breed,
beget,
Origin:
Old English fæder, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vader and German Vater, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin pater and Greek patēr .
