Father vs. Pater
Fathernoun
A (generally human) male who begets a child.
‘My father was a strong influence on me.’; ‘My friend Tony just became a father.’;
Paternoun
father
Fathernoun
A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
Paternoun
an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
Fathernoun
A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
‘Come, father; you can sit here.’;
Fathernoun
A term of respectful address for a priest.
Fathernoun
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.’;
Fathernoun
The founder of a discipline or science.
‘Albert Einstein is the father of modern physics.’;
Fathernoun
Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
Fathernoun
A senator of Ancient Rome.
Fatherverb
To be a father to; to sire.
Fatherverb
(figuratively) To give rise to.
Fatherverb
To act as a father; to support and nurture.
Fatherverb
To provide with a father.
Fatherverb
To adopt as one's own.
Fathernoun
One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent.
‘A wise son maketh a glad father.’;
Fathernoun
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.’;
Fathernoun
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.’;
Fathernoun
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!’;
Fathernoun
A senator of ancient Rome.
Fathernoun
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 !’;
Fathernoun
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.
Fathernoun
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.’;
Fathernoun
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.’;
Fatherverb
To make one's self the father of; to beget.
‘Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base.’;
Fatherverb
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.’;
Fatherverb
To provide with a father.
‘Think you I am no stronger than my sex,Being so fathered and so husbanded ?’;
Fathernoun
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father);
‘his father was born in Atlanta’;
Fathernoun
the founder of a family;
‘keep the faith of our forefathers’;
Fathernoun
`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
Fathernoun
(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
Fathernoun
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’;
Fathernoun
God when considered as the first person in the Trinity;
‘hear our prayers, Heavenly Father’;
Fathernoun
a person who founds or establishes some institution;
‘George Washington is the father of his country’;
Fathernoun
the head of an organized crime family
Fatherverb
make children;
‘Abraham begot Isaac’; ‘Men often father children but don't recognize them’;
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.
