What's the difference between brethren and father?

Brethren


Definition:

  • (n.) pl. of Brother.
  • (pl. ) of Brother
  • (pl. ) of Brother

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Kurds need to support their brethren,” Ali Haidar, the Syrian national reconciliation minister, told the Iraqi-Kurdish news site Rudaw.
  • (2) Though Koum is only in his late 30s and Acton in his early 40s, the men are older than many of their Silicon Valley brethren: Zuckerberg is only 29.
  • (3) Ten out of 10 for me, by the way, although I am a member of the Beardy Brethren so you could argue I have an unfair advantage.
  • (4) The following resolutions were adopted:– "That we, a monster meeting of the Orangemen of Newtownards and of the surrounding districts, recognise, with gratitude, the exertions of our brethren in time past, and declare our unalterable determination to stand or fall by the principles of our Order in defence of Her Majesty the Queen and of the British Constitution.
  • (5) Over the years, the same has not been said of some of his autocratic brethren.
  • (6) The PLO welcomed any help with reconstruction in Gaza, but called on "all Arab brethren to … use their leverage to ensure an end to the division and the policy of creating a separatist entity in the Gaza Strip, as [this] principally serves the Israeli agenda."
  • (7) Chibok is a small and conservative Christian enclave in mainly Muslim northern Nigeria where many parents are involved in translating the Bible into local languages and belong to the Nigerian branch of the Elgin, Illinois-based Church of the Brethren.
  • (8) Good news from you, our brethren,” he reads from a script, sitting flanked by the group’s black flag on one side and an AK47 on the other.
  • (9) We quarrel about just about everything and we’re never as organised as our Scandinavian brethren.
  • (10) Even on the Democratic side, the committed brethren of Obamadale insist that just because she came here first doesn’t mean Clinton has won over a new liberal base.
  • (11) Instead, they hurl themselves to the other side of the spectrum, becoming just as fanatically obsessed with the promotion of democracy, fighting their former extremist brethren – or selling their latest book.
  • (12) Sue Ellen has used a huge divorce settlement from JR to go into (unnamed) party politics, disappointing all of us who nursed a secret hope that she would fulfil her destiny by joining the Quivering Brethren .
  • (13) If any of them are also vigilante members of the terrifying Polish-Wahhabist Alliance (see above) conquering our British cities and, you’d think, slaying their brethren, you can’t really blame them; that is what it takes to put food on the table during George Osborne’s “economic recovery”.
  • (14) On 1 January 1993, the people of what became the Czech Republic were divorced from their brethren in Slovakia (to Havel's real distress, though there was nothing more he could have done to stop the secession).
  • (15) Last weekend Shekau issued an audio message calling on supporters not to be “overwhelmed by people like Donald Trump and the global coalition fighting our brethren in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and everywhere”.
  • (16) In absence of a decent team, nothing seems to unite Americans and draw their attention to the sport like perceived injustice against our 'brave Americans brethren.'
  • (17) Well-meaning Igbo leaders are calling on their brethren to "return home", referring to the attacks as "systematic ethnic cleansing".
  • (18) It was accompanied by an alarming call, as seen by Turkey’s leadership, by the PKK for Turkey’s Kurds to take up arms to help their Syrian brethren.
  • (19) We’ve learned from Scripture – as well as acts of courage from brave men like Gandhi, Dr. King and my dear departed friend Cesar Chavez – that every individual has a moral obligation to our brethren in struggle.
  • (20) The social and cultural origins of the Hutterian Brethren, the most inbred population in North America, are described along with the characteristics that make the group useful for genetic studies.

Father


Definition:

  • (n.) One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection.
  • (n.) A respectful mode of address to an old man.
  • (n.) A senator of ancient Rome.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity.
  • (v. t.) To make one's self the father of; to beget.
  • (v. t.) 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.).
  • (v. t.) To provide with a father.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
  • (2) She said that even as she approached the gates, she was debating with the boy’s father whether to let the first-grader enter.
  • (3) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
  • (4) My father has never met him but has a different view.
  • (5) Gassmann, whose late father, Vittorio , was a critically acclaimed star of Italian cinema in its heyday in the 1960s, tweeted over the weekend with the hashtag #Romasonoio (I am Rome), calling on the city’s residents to be an example of civility and clean up their own little corners of Rome with pride.
  • (6) My father wrote to the official who had ruled I could not ride and asked for Championships to be established for girls.
  • (7) Tony Abbott has refused to concede that saying Aboriginal people who live in remote communities have made a “lifestyle choice” was a poor choice of words as the father of reconciliation issued a public plea to rebuild relations with Indigenous people.
  • (8) I preferred the Times version, as my father would have done had he any interest in Sting.
  • (9) The education secretary's wife, Sarah Vine, a columnist, said her son William, nine, and daughter Beatrice, 11, now realise how much their father is hated for his position in government because other children tell them in the playground.
  • (10) He was fighting to breathe.” The decision on her father’s case came just 10 days after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, found there was not enough evidence to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager called Michael Brown.
  • (11) Anwar, who was not Sanam's father, admitted to police after his arrest that he put the girl in the cupboard as punishment and said Navsarka punished her in the same way.
  • (12) The dropout rate was only 5% in children whose mothers were educated at the high school level and above compared with 14% in children whose father's education was at this level.
  • (13) "I am in a bad situation, psychologically so bad and confused," one father said, surrounded by his three other young sons.
  • (14) A big majority, 60%, died in hospital; 20% in care homes, like my father; 6% in hospices, like my mother.
  • (15) Now remarried, and a father, he is standing for Plaid Cymru, again in the Cardiff Bay seat.
  • (16) Noor Tawane, now a middle-aged father of seven and businessman in the camp, was one of Dadaab’s first residents.
  • (17) Fifty-seven percent of counseled women had the baby's father tested.
  • (18) Father Vincent Twomey said that given the damage done by Smyth and the repercussions of his actions, "one way or another the cardinal has unfortunately lost his moral credibility".
  • (19) The Rhode Island Democrat got his start in national politics in 1999 when he was appointed to the Senate as a Republican after his father’s death.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Imogen and her father, John Hull, before he lost his sight.