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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.
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Pater

Father.
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Father

A male whose sperm unites with an egg, producing an embryo.
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Pater

Father.
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Father

A male whose impregnation of a female results in the birth of a child.
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Pater

An informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
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Father

A man who adopts a child.
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Father

A man who raises a child.
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Father

A male parent of an animal.
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Father

A male ancestor
He has died and now sleeps with his fathers.
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Father

A man who creates, originates, or founds something
Chaucer is considered the father of English poetry.
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Father

A man who serves or is thought of as a protector
Beloved as the father of the nation.
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Father

God.
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Father

The first person of the Christian Trinity.
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Father

An elderly or venerable man. Used as a title of respect.
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Father

One of the leading men, as of a city
The town fathers.
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Father

Or Father A church father.
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Father

A member of the senate in ancient Rome.
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Father

A priest or clergyman in the Roman Catholic or Anglican churches.
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Father

Used as a title and form of address with or without the clergyman's name.
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Father

To provide the sperm that unites with an egg to produce (an embryo, fetus, or child).
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Father

To act or serve as a father to (a child).
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Father

To create, found, or originate
Father a political movement.
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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).
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Father

To act or serve as a father.
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Father

A (generally human) male who begets a child.
My father was a strong influence on me.
My friend Tony just became a father.
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Father

A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
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Father

A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
Come, father; you can sit here.
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Father

A term of respectful address for a priest.
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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.
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Father

The founder of a discipline or science.
Albert Einstein is the father of modern physics.
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Father

Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
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Father

Something inanimate that begets.
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Father

(Christianity) A member of a church council.
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Father

(computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
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Father

To be a father to; to sire.
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Father

(figuratively) To give rise to.
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Father

To act as a father; to support and nurture.
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Father

To provide with a father.
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Father

To adopt as one's own.
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Father

One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent.
A wise son maketh a glad father.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Father

A senator of ancient Rome.
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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 !
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Father

To make one's self the father of; to beget.
Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base.
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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.
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Father

To provide with a father.
Think you I am no stronger than my sex,Being so fathered and so husbanded ?
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Father

A male parent (also used as a term of address to your father);
His father was born in Atlanta
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Father

The founder of a family;
Keep the faith of our forefathers
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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
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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
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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
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Father

God when considered as the first person in the Trinity;
Hear our prayers, Heavenly Father
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Father

A person who founds or establishes some institution;
George Washington is the father of his country
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Father

The head of an organized crime family
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Father

Make children;
Abraham begot Isaac
Men often father children but don't recognize them
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