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Father

noun

1.

A male parent (also used as a term of address to your father). Synonyms: begetter, male parent.

2.

The founder of a family. Synonyms: forefather, sire.

3.

'Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); 'Padre' is frequently used in the military. Synonym: Padre.

4.

(Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom. Synonyms: Church Father, Father of the Church.

5.

A person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization. "The city fathers endorsed the proposal"

6.

God when considered as the first person in the Trinity. Synonyms: Father-God, Fatherhood.

7.

A person who founds or establishes some institution. Synonyms: beginner, founder, founding father.

8.

The head of an organized crime family. Synonym: don.

verb

(past & past part. fathered; pres. part. fathering)

1.

Make children. Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, generate, get, mother, sire. "Men often father children but don't recognize them"

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"Father" Quotes from Famous Books

... little of men and women as to imagine that you two could go on indefinitely content with the mere fact that you love each other? I may not have known my own wife because I chose to be blind, but a doctor knows as much about women in general as a father confessor. Men and women are not made like that! It seems that every one but myself has known for months that Masters is in love with you; and Masters is a man of strong passions and relentless will. He has used his will so far to curb his passions, principally, no doubt, on my account; he ...

— Sleeping Fires • Gertrude Atherton

... governs them according to his holy will, so that nothing happens in this world without his appointment." Again: "This doctrine affords us unspeakable consolation, since we are taught thereby, that nothing can befall us by chance, but by the direction of our most gracious and Heavenly Father." Mark, according to this, NOTHING happens but with the APPOINTMENT and by the DIRECTION of our ...

— The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted • Francis Hodgson

... Lincoln was yet at Philadelphia, he was met by Mr. Frederick W. Seward, son of Senator Seward, who brought him an important communication from his father and General Scott at Washington. About the beginning of the year serious apprehension had been felt lest a sudden uprising of the secessionists in Virginia and Maryland might endeavor to gain possession of the national capital. An investigation by a committee of Congress found ...

— A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln - Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History • John G. Nicolay

... go to the high-school," he said, "mother is going to buy me a watch. I shall ask her to buy me a watch-chain like this. . . . Wh-at a lo-ket! Father's got a locket like that, only yours has little bars on it and his has letters. . . . There's mother's portrait in the middle of his. Father has a different sort of chain now, not made with rings, but ...

— The Party and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov

... catch me again, and almost in the same posture; indeed, it had more of design in it on his part, though not on my part. It was thus: the young ladies were all gone a-visiting with their mother; his brother was out of town; and as for his father, he had been in London for a week before. He had so well watched me that he knew where I was, though I did not so much as know that he was in the house; and he briskly comes up the stairs and, seeing me ...

— The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders &c. • Daniel Defoe

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