(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.
Grandpa
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Grandpapa
Example Sentences:
(1) As it was, Labour limped in seven points and nearly two million votes behind the Conservatives because older cohorts of the electorate leant heavily to the Tories and grandpa and grandma turned up at the polling stations in the largest numbers.
(2) Her mother-in-law said at the time: "Grandpa would never have bought a car, but a field."
(3) In fact, even as he is readying Her for lock-down, he's simultaneously dipping in and out of the production for the Jackass spin-off, Bad Grandpa , starring Knoxville as a fake 86-year-old granddad with a huge capacity for giving offence.
(4) My dear stoic father, honest as the days are long, was looking, for once in his life, thoroughly jangled, and I kept wanting to impart upon him mentally the wise words of Grandpa Abe Simpson : "They say the greatest tragedy is when a father outlives his son.
(5) As one author so aptly states, "Not too many years ago the words grandma and grandpa conjured images of rocking chairs and inactivity.
(6) Photograph: Courtesy of Warner Bros Picture Best makeup and hairstyling: Dallas Buyers Club Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa The Lone Ranger Winner: Dallas Buyers Club Best animated feature: The Croods Despicable Me 2 Ernest and Celestine Frozen The Wind Rises Winner: Frozen Best animated short: Feral Get a Horse!
(7) Where Heal nodded politely to Wren, Nouvel winks at him cheekily as if saying: "Come on, grandpa; get down with the bling, and get shopping."
(8) Michael Douglas is the red carpet grandpa and it is lovely.
(9) Crazy grandpa is Frank (Frank Langella), a sometime jewel thief now losing his memory.
(10) I bought the ox cheeks and veg there, along with some red wine from a grandpa.
(11) The Munsters, a 1960s CBS series in black and white, focused on a family of comical horror movie parodies including Herman, who looked like Frankenstein's monster, and Grandpa, a Dracula lookalike.
(12) One key factor is that trips to the cinema in India are a family experience: if a film can appeal to Mum, Dad, Granny, Grandpa, teens and the little'uns then it's logical to assume the box office takings will benefit.
(13) Its main competitor is Bad Grandpa, but the academy are big on Jean-Marc Vallée’s Aids drama, nominating it six times, and I don’t think a Jackass production can steal its thunder.
(14) But this is a real muscle-up to grandpa’s way,” said Cheek.
(15) Then her adoptive parents Hans and Rosa ( Geoffrey Rush , all twinkly grandpa, and Emily Watson , super-grouchy but with a heart of gold) take in and hide the Jewish son of the man who saved Hans's life in the Great War.
(16) She was like: 'Why would they not take care of crazy grandpa?
(17) For decades, the sun-soaked south of France was the heartland of “Grandpa” Le Pen, who built up an electoral base here in the early 1990s.
(18) Grandpa Bill isn't wacky, he's just a decent, well-grounded man."
(19) In truth, I don’t really understand it because I don’t feel if people were sitting down to interview Bradley Cooper they’d be like ‘let’s talk about [his flops] Aloha and Burnt’, or if they were sitting down with Robert De Niro, ‘let’s talk about Dirty Grandpa’ – and that feels sort of different with me.
(20) Starting out as a boy apprentice in the Glasgow optical engineering firm Barr and Stroud, Grandpa eventually became managing director.