(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.
Mather
Definition:
(n.) See Madder.
Example Sentences:
(1) The continent is fertile ground for WPP, which owns the agencies Ogilvy & Mather and Young & Rubicam, and counts Germany as its fourth largest market and France as its seventh largest.
(2) Several attempts to resolve the site's problems have failed to come to fruition, including masterplans by Sir Terry Farrell, Lord Richard Rogers and the late Rick Mather who drew up the last scheme in 2000.
(3) At the core of the Ashmolean Museum 's spectacular new £5m Ancient Egyptian and Nubian galleries, designed by the architect Rick Mather and displaying one of the greatest collections outside Egypt, there lies a man who died almost 3,000 years ago – and has just been revealed as having no heart.
(4) Internal candidates who could succeed Sorrell include Dominic Proctor, the head of WPP's media-buying arm, Mindshare, and Shelley Lazarus, boss of Ogilvy & Mather.
(5) The Scottish energy minister, Jim Mather, said this morning that the 181-turbine project , which would have dominated the moors of northern Lewis, would have had "significant adverse impacts" on rare and endangered birds living on the peatlands – a breach of European habitats legislation.
(6) The Scottish energy minister, Jim Mather, said the £10m Saltire prize was the world's most valuable government-funded prize for technology innovation, but critics complained that it was a wasteful "vanity project".
(7) Campaigners against the HS2 rail line Pat Mather and John Keleher in Pickmere, Cheshire.
(8) Speaking in a rare TV interview, Eminem seemed woefully uninterested in his forthcoming record, The Marshall Mathers LP 2.
(9) Ogilvy & Mather created a public service advert last year to encourage drivers to use seatbelts by showing a group of transgender hijras at a red traffic light.
(10) The farm was bought by Mather's family 60 years ago: now, HS2 will take away 19 of their 23 acres, and 60% of land that they rent close by, along with their farmhouse and outbuildings.
(11) The model is compared with Mather's polygenic balance theory, with models that include mutation-selection balance, and others that have been proposed to study the role of linkage disequilibrium in quantitative inheritance.
(12) The new galleries are the second phase of the Ashmolean's redevelopment and follow the dramatic internal overhaul of Britain's oldest museum by architect Rick Mather.
(13) Other companies to sign up this year include Ogilvy & Mather, the global communications company, the food company Nestlé and Heart of Midlothian football club.
(14) The report and accounts also reveal that WPP, which owns the US offshoots J Walter Thompson and Ogilvy & Mather, has agreed to contribute to the expenses of maintaining Sorrell's apartment in New York as he is required to spend a considerable amount of time there "due to the size of the company's business in the US".
(15) Case studies Katrina Mather Katrina Mather's teachers have predicted her a stunning four A*s in her A-levels .
(16) Cavanagh and Mather (1989) reviewed literature concerning the possible distinction between short- and long-range processes in motion perception and concluded that the distinction cannot be supported.
(17) The Spectator , the right-leaning political weekly, has appointed the ad agency Ogilvy & Mather to develop a campaign to support a revamp later this year.
(18) Sorrell, who has been chief executive since 1986, embarked on a string of acquisitions and WPP's vast family of companies now includes the advertising agencies JWT and Ogilvy & Mather, the buyers Mediacom, Kantar market researchers and the public relations firms Hill & Knowlton and Finsbury.
(19) The Marshall Mathers LP 2, released 13 years after the seven-times-platinum Marshall Mathers LP, will be released on 5 November .
(20) The data could not be fully analyzed because of the failure to fulfill Mather's first criterion for an adequate scale.