(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.
Fatherless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child.
(a.) Without a known author.
Example Sentences:
(1) This has been stimulated by sociological concerns for one-parent, fatherless families (Adams, 1973) and by our realizing how historically neglected has been the paternal role in theories of child development.
(2) The authors examine studies on the social, emotional, and psychosexual development of children raised in fatherless heterosexual or in lesbian families and conclude that these studies do not support the assumption of the Warnock Committee.
(3) Here is the point: poverty is not just about income; it is about a range of factors – most notably family breakdown – that contribute to poverty, and which can be only be addressed in "wraparound" ways: children who experience family breakdown do less well in education; debt places severe strains on personal relationships; coming from a workless household can inoculate young people against developing a work ethic; fatherlessness can create a sense of despair that finds, at best, temporary relief in alcohol and drugs; an education system that takes no account of chaos back home can lead many young girls to get pregnant before they are really ready to do the difficult work of parenting.
(4) Interest in fatherhood is increasing dramatically because of the rates of fatherlessness in countries such as South Africa and the startling range of social issues that accompany such rates including gender-based violence, academic achievement of boys and girls, HIV transmission to infants and maternal and newborn mortality in general.
(5) Non compliant patient families had lower incomes, more fatherless households, and comunication difficulties within the family and with the medical establishment.
(6) Photograph: Mohammad Ojjeh Fatherless, husbandless, homeless … When I ask a man where he'd come from he changed the name of his town from Kafranboodeh to Kafr Mahdoomeh, "the Demolished Village".
(7) When the widowed and fatherless women made initial journeys to it, and the graves of their dead, they faced baying Bosnian Serb crowds brandishing the portrait of Ratko Mladic.
(8) Significantly higher rates of psychiatric disorders were found for the fatherless boys, whereas no such effect could be detected for the fatherless girls.
(9) Herzog and Sudia (1971) have recently compiled an extensive bibliography of the fatherless family.
(10) It was an absence that came to define her: the waiting woman, the mother, two fatherless daughters, the carrier of the torch.
(11) From an examination of the effects on children of growing up in fatherless heterosexual and lesbian families, this paper questions that assumption.
(12) The commonest reasons for referral of the 157 new patients to the social worker over this study period were extreme poverty; housing, matrimonial, and psychiatric problems; and problems of fatherless families.
(13) However, this was not accounted for by the present dietary findings, since fatherless children had lower intakes of carbohydrate and added sugar.
(14) The children who have ever lived in one-parent families are selected for more detailed examination, such as the reasons for their parental situation, the age their families broke up and the ratio of motherless to fatherless at each age.
(15) The first world war left 360,000 children fatherless.
(16) It was my father’s second wife who found it troubling when her fully parented children were occasionally exposed to their fatherless half-siblings.
(17) Psychotherapy of some fatherless adult patients suggests that they may replace the shameful experience of their childhood by an illusory picture of their past, and that they may exalt their absent fathers to an ideal perfection in order not to face the possibility that their fathers might have been irresponsible deserters.
(18) The aliens in New Mexico were from space whereas I was a poor fatherless Jew in a Baptist area of Georgia.
(19) Fourteen of Qureshi’s cousins were left fatherless.
(20) Furthermore, fatherlessness remains a neglected issue.