Definition of Father
Noun: father faa-dhu(r)
- A male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
"his father was born in Atlanta";
- male parent, begetter [archaic]
- The founder of a family
"keep the faith of our fathers";
- forefather, sire
- A person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
"the tennis fathers ruled in her favour"; "the city fathers endorsed the proposal"
- A person who founds or establishes some institution
"George Washington is the father of his country";
- founder, beginner, founding father
- The head of an organized crime family
- don
- Make children
"Men often father children but don't recognize them";
- beget [archaic], get, engender [archaic], mother, sire, generate, bring forth
- Bring into being
- originate, initiate, start
- Act as a father; support and nurture
- (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 Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom
- Church Father, Father of the Church
- God when considered as the first person in the Trinity
"hear our prayers, Heavenly Father";
- Father-God, Fatherhood
- '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
- Padre
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