father

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father[1,noun] father[2,verb] Apostolic Father church father city father Father Christmas father figure father image father-in-law Father Time

Main Entry: ¹fa·ther
Pronunciation: 'fä-[th]&r
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English fader, from Old English fæder; akin to Old High German fater father, Latin pater, Greek patEr
1 a : a man who has begotten a child; also : SIRE 3 b capitalized (1) : GOD 1 (2) : the first person of the Trinity
2 : FOREFATHER
3 a : one related to another in a way suggesting that of father to child b : an old man -- used as a respectful form of address
4 often capitalized : a pre-Scholastic Christian writer accepted by the church as an authoritative witness to its teaching and practice -- called also church father
5 a : one that originates or institutes <the father of modern science> b : SOURCE <the sun, the father of warmth and light -- Lena M. Whitney> c : PROTOTYPE
6 : a priest of the regular clergy; broadly : PRIEST -- used especially as a title
7 : one of the leading men (as of a city) -- usually used in plural
- fa·ther·hood /-"hud/ noun
- fa·ther·less /-l&s/ adjective
- fa·ther·like /-"lIk/ adjective or adverb