Daddy vs. Father — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Daddy and Father
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Daddy
A father.
Father
A father is the male parent of a child. Besides the paternal bonds of a father to his children, the father may have a parental, legal, and social relationship with the child that carries with it certain rights and obligations.
Daddy
Father.
Father
A male whose sperm unites with an egg, producing an embryo.
Daddy
A male lover.
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Father
A male whose impregnation of a female results in the birth of a child.
Daddy
An informal term of address for a man.
Rock 'n' roll is cool, daddy, and you know it!
Father
A man who adopts a child.
Daddy
A dominant male partner, often used as an address.
The guy I've been dating offered to do bondage with me, and I was like "Yes please, daddy."
Father
A man who raises a child.
Daddy
(slang) A male juvenile delinquent in a reformatory who dominates the other inmates through threats and violence.
Father
A male parent of an animal.
Daddy
To father; to sire.
Father
A male ancestor
He has died and now sleeps with his fathers.
Daddy
Diminutive of Dad.
Father
A man who creates, originates, or founds something
Chaucer is considered the father of English poetry.
Daddy
An informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
Father
A man who serves or is thought of as a protector
Beloved as the father of the nation.
Father
God.
Father
The first person of the Christian Trinity.
Father
An elderly or venerable man. Used as a title of respect.
Father
One of the leading men, as of a city
The town fathers.
Father
Or Father A church father.
Father
A member of the senate in ancient Rome.
Father
A priest or clergyman in the Roman Catholic or Anglican churches.
Father
Used as a title and form of address with or without the clergyman's name.
Father
To provide the sperm that unites with an egg to produce (an embryo, fetus, or child).
Father
To act or serve as a father to (a child).
Father
To create, found, or originate
Father a political movement.
Father
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).
Father
To act or serve as a father.
Father
A (generally human) male who begets a child.
My father was a strong influence on me.
My friend Tony just became a father.
Father
A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
Father
A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
Come, father; you can sit here.
Father
A term of respectful address for a priest.
Father
A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
My brother was a father to me after my parents got divorced.
The child is father to the man.
Father
The founder of a discipline or science.
Albert Einstein is the father of modern physics.
Father
Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
Father
Something inanimate that begets.
Father
(Christianity) A member of a church council.
Father
(computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
Father
To be a father to; to sire.
Father
(figuratively) To give rise to.
Father
To act as a father; to support and nurture.
Father
To provide with a father.
Father
To adopt as one's own.
Father
One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent.
A wise son maketh a glad father.
Father
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.
Abraham, who is the father of us all.
Father
One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection.
I was a father to the poor.
He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house.
Father
A respectful mode of address to an old man.
And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him [Elisha], . . . and said, O my father, my father!
Father
A senator of ancient Rome.
Father
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 !
Father
One of the chief ecclesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; - often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.
Father
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.
Might be the father, Harry, to that thought.
The father of good news.
Father
The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity.
Our Father, which art in heaven.
Now had the almighty Father from above . . . Bent down his eye.
Father
To make one's self the father of; to beget.
Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base.
Father
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 witOften fathered what he writ.
Father
To provide with a father.
Think you I am no stronger than my sex,Being so fathered and so husbanded ?
Father
A male parent (also used as a term of address to your father);
His father was born in Atlanta
Father
The founder of a family;
Keep the faith of our forefathers
Father
`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
Father
(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 Lation Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom
Father
A person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization;
The tennis fathers ruled in her favor
The city fathers endorsed the proposal
Father
God when considered as the first person in the Trinity;
Hear our prayers, Heavenly Father
Father
A person who founds or establishes some institution;
George Washington is the father of his country
Father
The head of an organized crime family
Father
Make children;
Abraham begot Isaac
Men often father children but don't recognize them
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