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.

Compare father with other words:

father vs. mather

father vs. fatner

bather vs. father

father vs. gather

father vs. rather

father vs. lather

father vs. fother

father vs. feather

farther vs. father

father vs. parents

father vs. reverend

bishop vs. father

father vs. fathership

father vs. mameluco

father vs. peculium

father vs. hygiea

father vs. unfathered

father vs. filiety

father vs. legally

father vs. gullet

chair vs. father

father vs. furthest

father vs. hero

father vs. further

father vs. pope

father vs. guide

father vs. patristic

father vs. trinitarianism

father vs. pallas

father vs. poppa

father vs. sistren

father vs. fatherlike

father vs. monophysite

father vs. patriarchy

brethren vs. father

father vs. trinity

father vs. papaw

father vs. sage

father vs. master

father vs. triune

father vs. parson

father vs. patricide

father vs. poppy

father vs. pappy

emancipate vs. father

father vs. pastor

daddy vs. father

father vs. friar

father vs. relative

bastard vs. father

father vs. papa

father vs. stepsister

father vs. stepbrother

father vs. offspring

baba vs. father

family vs. father

father vs. priest

father vs. minister

father vs. sister

father vs. paternal

father vs. grandpa

father vs. pater

father vs. support

father vs. nurture

beget vs. father

father vs. sire

father vs. stepfather

father vs. godfather

father vs. grandfather

father vs. forefather

father vs. fatherly

father vs. fatherliness

father vs. fatherless

father vs. fatherland

father vs. fatherhood

daughter vs. father

father vs. founder

father vs. mother

father vs. male

father vs. raise

child vs. father

father vs. human

abba vs. father