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

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In some Christian churches, priests are addressed or referred to as Father. Father Cats Father Coughlin Damien Father Divine Father Joseph Father Mother's Day and Father's Day power of the father

padre

{f} sire, beget; affirm one's fatherhood; care for as a father; invent, found; be responsible for

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A familiar or direct way of referring to some ordained clergy "Low Church" Episcopalians usually never use the term The title is abbreviated as "Fr " (e g Fr Alvin Kimel)

`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 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

A respectful mode of address to an old man

a familiar or direct way of referring to some ordained clergy: the Reverend John F Marks, but--in personal conversation or in the salutation of a letter--Father Marks, Dear Father Marks Typically used of all Roman Catholic clergy and of some Episcopal clergy Be careful in using or not using this term: some clergy do not like it; others are offended if it is not used Usually the people who prefer the term assume that you know they prefer it There is no easy way to tell what the clergy preference is except by paying attention to letters, conversations, etc

the head of an organized crime family

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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

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"

In Roman Catholicism, in Orthodoxy, and to some degree in Anglicanism, people often address priests as father In general usage, if John Smith is a priest, he is called Father John, but if he is an Anglican priest, he might be called Father Smith Protestants do not call their clergy father, based on Matthew 23: 9, but they do not use the same reasoning to ban the term teacher (Matthew 23: 10), so the prohibition is mainly a reaction against Roman Catholic practice Groups who do use this term argue that the context (Matthew 23: 1-12) only forbids Christian leaders to use titles such as father and teacher hypocritically or for self-promotion They use 1 Corinthians 4: 15 as an example of how the term father can rightly be applied to a Christian leader However, if you are writing a letter to Father John, the address on the envelope should say The Reverend John

A male parent

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

The man who invented or started something is sometimes referred to as the father of that thing. Max Dupain, regarded as the father of modern photography

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Your father is your male parent. You can also call someone your father if he brings you up as if he was this man. His father was a painter He would be a good father to my children. Mr Stoneman, a father of five

A senator of ancient Rome

a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father); "his father was born in Atlanta"

One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent

God when considered as the first person in the Trinity; "hear our prayers, Heavenly Father" a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father); "his father was born in Atlanta" `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 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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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

A term of address for a Christian priest

(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

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

To provide with a father

The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity

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

the founder of a family; "keep the faith of our forefathers"

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The Father is the Creator and the Source of Will in the Universe There is only one Father and one Will

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

One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection

{i} male parent; male ancestor; one who cares for others in a paternal manner; one who has founded or established something; elder of a town; priest; title of respect given to an older man

A banker provided by nature

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When a man fathers a child, he makes a woman pregnant and their child is born. She claims Mark fathered her child He fathered at least three children by the wives of other men

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

To make one's self the father of; to beget

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fader

Far-

daddy

far

Tom helps his dad out on the farm. - Tom helps his father out on the farm.

The apple does not fall far from the trunk. - Like father, like son.

In Slavic culture, a traditional Yuletide gift-bearing character

Father Time

A personification of time as an old man, usually carrying an hourglass

Marry, sir, by a rule as plain as the plain bald pate of Father Time himself.

Father of Lies

A name given to Herodotus because of his controversial works

Father of Lies

The Christian devil; Satan

Father's Day

A holiday in celebration of fatherhood, or to honor fathers, celebrated on the third Sunday of June in most of the world's countries. See Wikipedia: Father's Day: Dates

father figure

someone that represents, behaves as, or is thought of as a father to another person or group of people

father figures

plural form of father figure

father lasher

A shorthorn sculpin

father lashers

plural form of father lasher

father of chapel

A senior officer or shop steward within a trade union branch (chapel) especially in the UK printing industry

father-in-law

One's spouse's father

father-to-be

A male partner of a pregnant woman (mother-to-be), especially when for the first time

Father Brown

a priest in stories by the British writer G. K. Chesterton, who solves crimes by his knowledge of human nature

Father Christmas

Santa Claus, fictional character associated with Christmas

Father Christmas

Father Christmas is the name given to an imaginary old man with a long white beard and a red coat. Traditionally, young children in many countries are told that he brings their Christmas presents. = Santa Claus. Santa Claus. an imaginary man who wears red clothes, has a long white beard, and is said to bring presents to children at Christmas = Santa Claus

Father Damien

v. orig. Joseph de Veuster born Jan. 3, 1849, Tremelo, Belg. died April 15, 1889, Molokai, Hawaii Belgian priest. After training at the College of Braine-le-Comte, he joined the Society of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in 1858. He went as a missionary to the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands in 1863 and was ordained there in 1864. In 1873 he volunteered to take charge of the leper colony on Molokai Island. There he served as both physician and priest, dramatically improving living conditions and building two orphanages. He contracted leprosy himself in 1884 but refused to leave his post, and he died at Molokai five years later

Father Divine

orig. George Baker born 1880?, Georgia?, U.S. died Sept. 10, 1965, Philadelphia, Pa. U.S. religious leader. Reportedly born on a plantation, he began preaching in 1899 in the South and later in Baltimore, Md., as "The Messenger." He settled in New York City in 1915 and adopted the name Major J. Devine (later altered to Father Divine). In 1919 he established his first communal settlement in Sayville on Long Island, and he founded the Peace Mission movement. His predominantly black following expanded rapidly in the 1930s and '40s, and his settlements, called "heavens," eventually numbered about 170. He taught his followers to renounce personal property, and the strict moral code he preached included celibacy and a ban on alcohol and tobacco. Many of his followers, called "angels," believed him to be God

Father Divine

George Baker (1880-1965), African-American social activist, founder of the communal religious movement "Father Divine's Peace Mission

Father Frost

Santa Claus, fictional character associated with Christmas

Father Joseph

orig. François-Joseph le Clerc du Tremblay born Nov. 4, 1577, Paris, France died Dec. 18, 1638, Rueil French mystic and religious reformer. He joined the Capuchins in 1599. His fervent ambition to convert European Protestants to Roman Catholicism coincided with cardinal de Richelieu's plans for French domination of Europe, and he became Richelieu's secretary in 1611. He became known as the "Gray Eminence" (for his gray Capuchin cloak), and his close collaboration with Richelieu (the "Red Eminence") gave him powers akin to those of a foreign minister, especially during Richelieu's campaign to finance France's participation in the Thirty Years' War, which Joseph's policies did much to bring about

Father of Comedy

Aristophanes (c.448-c.388 BC), Greek playwright and one of the greatest of the ancient writers of comedy, author of "The Clouds" and "Lysistrata

Father of History

{i} Herodotus, famous Greek historian (approx. 484 B.C-425 B.C) noted for his writings concerning the conflict between Greece and Persia

Father of the Church

Fathers of the Church one of the several important teachers of the early Christian church whose writings are used to answer any difficult points of faith or practice

Father's Day

Father's Day is the third Sunday in June, when children give cards and presents to their fathers to show that they love them. a day on which people give cards and presents to their father

Father's Day

holiday which honors fathers

father brown

Chesterton

father brown

a Catholic priest who was the hero of detective stories by G

father confessor

priest authorized to hear confessions; spiritual father

father figure

a man who takes over all the functions of the real father

father figure

one who serves as an emotional substitute for a father, one looked up to or respected as a father

father figure

If you describe someone as a father figure, you mean that you feel able to turn to that person for advice and support in the same way that you might turn to your father. She believed her daughter needed a father-figure He became a father figure to the whole company. An older man, often one in a position of power or influence, who elicits the emotions usually reserved for a father. an older man who you trust and respect father figure to/for

father like

like a father

father longlegs

See Daddy longlegs, 2

father of waters

Mississippi river, largest river of North America

father's day

US: third Sunday in June

father-figure

a man (often a powerful or influential man) who arouses emotions usually felt for your real father and with whom you identify psychologically

father-in-law

father of the bride

father-in-law

Someone's father-in-law is the father of their husband or wife. fathers-in-law the father of your husband or wife

father-in-law

the father of your spouse

Founding Father

A member of the convention that drafted the United States constitution

Heavenly Father

A formal name for the Jewish or Christian God

For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Holy Father

The title of the Pope of the Catholic Church

Holy Father

The God in various Christian religions

Old Father Thames

A personification of the river Thames

Our Father

God, especially used in Christianity

Our Father

Alternative name of Lord's Prayer

Sky Father

A title for the highest gods of Heathenry, especially applied to Tiw

adoptive father

A man who has adopted a child, as opposed to a biological father

biological father

The man from whom one inherits half of one's DNA and from whom men inherit their Y chromosome

birth father

The genetic father of a child (as opposed to an adoptive or stepfather)

city father

A senior municipal official, especially elected officials such as a mayor, a controller, or a municipal legislator

co-father

the relationship of a godfather to the other god-parents, and the legal parents, of a child

co-father

in a male homosexual couple, the nonbiological father (partner of the biological father) of a child

co-father-in-law

the father of one's son- or daughter-in-law; that is, the father-in-law of one's son or daughter, or, the father of one spouse in relation to the parents of the other spouse

in plural The relationship between people whose children marry each other; the father of the bride vis-à-vis the father of the groom.

fatherly

Characteristic of fathers, paternal

fatherly

Characteristic of what is considered the ideal behaviour pertaining to fatherhood

fatherly advice.

foster father

An male adult who cares for a child who has been placed in foster care

he could be her father

One could be someone's parent, said of a man older than a woman

how's your father

Sexual intercourse

I popped round Mary's for a bit of how's your father.

like father, like son

A son will have traits similar to his father upon reaching adulthood

surrogate father

a man who take care of a child when one or more of the parents are unavailable (see also surrogate parent, foster parents)

surrogate father

a man who acts as a father figure to a child usually when a father is not in the picture

like father like son

son takes after his father, apple doesn't fall far from the tree

fatherhood

{n} the character or state of a father

fatherless

{a} having no father, destitute, lonely

fatherly

{a} in the manner of a father

all-father

Allfather or All-Father may refer to any supreme male god with progenitive characteristics

our father

(Din) The prayer taught by Christ to his disciples, beginning with ‘Our Father’

our father

(Din) The Lord's Prayer, also known as the Our Father or Pater noster is probably the best-known prayer in Christianity. On Easter Sunday 2007 it was estimated that 2 billion Protestant, Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox Christians read, recited, or sang the short prayer in hundreds of languages in houses of worship of all shapes and sizes. Although many theological differences and various modes and manners of worship divide Christians, according to Fuller Seminary professor Clayton Schmit "there is a sense of solidarity in knowing that Christians around the globe are praying together…, and these words always unite us."

the child is father to the man

Who we are as children gives rise to (or “is father to”) who we are as adults

Abraham our Father

Abraham the "father" of the Jewish people

Heavenly Father

God, Almighty God

Holy Father

In the Catholic Church, the Holy Father is the Pope. Used as a title and form of address for the pope. used when speaking to or about the Pope

Merciful Father

God, Lord

Mother's Day and Father's Day

Holidays. In the U.S. a nationwide observance of Mother's Day was suggested by Anna Jarvis of Grafton, W.Va., and in 1908 formal observances were held in churches in Grafton and Philadelphia. By 1911 every state celebrated the occasion on the second Sunday in May. It was formalized by Congress in 1914. In Britain, Mother's Day is celebrated in mid-Lent as Mothering Sunday. During the Middle Ages a custom developed of allowing those who had moved away to visit their home parishes and their mothers on Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday of Lent. Many other countries also celebrate the holiday on this date, while some mark the observance at other times of the year. Father's Day was first celebrated in 1910 in Spokane, Wash., through efforts of Sonora Dodd and the YMCA. Celebrated on the third Sunday in June, it became a legal holiday in 1972. Both days were originally largely religious holidays but have been commercialized with the sending of greeting cards and the giving of gifts

Our Father

another name for the Lord's Prayer

Our Father

Lord's prayer, paternoster, most important Christian prayer which Jesus taught his followers (the prayer begins with the words "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name"); God

Our Heavenly Father

used when addressing God in prayer

adoptive father

man who has adopted a child

alleged father

A man who is contesting an accusation of paternity or wishes to establish it when a question of paternity exists

alleged father

The person named by the custodial parent as the biological father of the child

alleged father

The man named as the possible biological father of a child born out of wedlock

be a father to

be someone's father (usually biological); act in the manner of a father, give advice, protect, nurture

be one's father's son

resemble one's father

became a father

had a child, started a family

biological father

true father of a child, man whose sperm created the child

birth father

a child's natural father, rather than a man who has become the child's legal father through adoption

church father

Any of the authoritative early writers in the Christian church who formulated doctrines and codified religious observances

city father

an important municipal official

city father

A municipal official, such as a council member

city father

{i} one of the founders of a city; member of the governing body of a city

expectant father

man whose child will soon be born

fathered

past of father

fatherhood

the status of a father the status of a religious leader the kinship relation between an offspring and the father

fatherhood

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

fatherhood

{i} position or duties of a father

fatherhood

The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity

fatherhood

Fatherhood is the state of being a father. the joys of fatherhood. the state of being a father

fatherhood

the state of being a father

fatherhood

the status of a father

fatherhood

the status of a religious leader

fatherhood

the kinship relation between an offspring and the father

fathering

the skills and activities involved in being a father

fatherless

You describe children as fatherless when their father has died or does not live with them. widows and fatherless children They were left fatherless

fatherless

Without a living father

fatherless

Without a known author

fatherless

Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child

fatherless

{s} having no father, orphaned

fatherless

having no living father

fatherless

not having a known or legally responsible father

fatherless

not having a known or legally responsible father having no living father

fatherly

like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective

fatherly

Fatherly feelings or actions are like those of a kind father. His voice filled with fatherly concern. kind and gentle in a way that is considered typical of a good father

fatherly

showing the affection of a father like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective

fatherly

showing the affection of a father

fatherly

{s} paternal, as or like a father; kind and protective; protectively, kindly, lovingly

fatherly

Of or pertaining to a father

fatherly

Like a father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful

fathers

venerated leaders of ancient Christendom whose extant writings containing numerous scriptural citing provide a witness to the prevailing text of their day

fathers

An alternative term for "patristic writers " or in referrence to early church fathers

fathers

plural of father

fathers

An alternative term for "patristic writers "

fathers

third-person singular of father

foster father

one who takes the place of a biological father in raising a child

foster-father

a man who is a foster parent

founding father

The Founding Fathers of the United States were the members of the American Constitutional Convention of 1787. someone who begins something such as a new way of thinking, or a new organization founding father of

founding father

The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it. = founder

founding father

a member of the Constitutional Convention that drafted the United States Constitution in 1787

from father to son

passed by the father to his son, from generation to generation

single-parent father

father who raises children without the mother

spiritual father

spiritual leader, guru, object of admiration

the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost

holy trinity, three incarnations of God according to Christian belief

the Holy Father

priest

father

Hyphenation

Fa·ther

Turkish pronunciation

fädhır

Synonyms

ancestor, begetter, dad, daddy, forebearer, origin, pa, padre, papa, parent, pop, predecessor, procreator, progenitor, sire

Antonyms

mother, son, daughter, child

Pronunciation

/ˈfäᴛʜər/ /ˈfɑːðɜr/

Etymology

[ fä-[th]&r, f[a ] (noun.) before 12th century. From Middle English fader, from Old English fæder, from Proto-Germanic *fađēr (cf. East Frisian foar, Dutch vader, German Vater), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (cf. Irish athair, Tocharian A pācar, B pācer, Lithuanian patinas 'male animal').