1
as in dad
a male human parent
I stopped calling my father "Daddy" because I thought it sounded childish
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2
as in ancestor
something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developed
Cook's Tours can be considered the daddy of all organized travel tours
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Recent Examples of daddy
Even after Mando saves him from the arena, Rotta's daddy issues constitute his entire personality.
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Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 24 May 2026
If his film’s fetishized heroine manages to claw her way back out by the end, conquering her daddy issues and taking on the boogeyman, most of us are still stuck down there.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2026
For here is John Lennon setting himself up as a new kind of hands-on daddy.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 May 2026
Where else but the French Riviera could one first see Alexander Skarsgård becoming a dominant daddy in last year’s Pillion?
—Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 8 May 2026
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Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 24 May 2026
If his film’s fetishized heroine manages to claw her way back out by the end, conquering her daddy issues and taking on the boogeyman, most of us are still stuck down there.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2026
For here is John Lennon setting himself up as a new kind of hands-on daddy.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 May 2026
Where else but the French Riviera could one first see Alexander Skarsgård becoming a dominant daddy in last year’s Pillion?
—Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 8 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for daddy
Noun
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Jack is already following in his dad's footsteps with a passion for sports.—
Meg Walters,
InStyle,
14 June 2026
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Plano resident Parker Nay got tickets with his dad and took part in the Oranje Fanwalk, a tradition for Netherlands supporters.—
Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 June 2026
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Mesa Verde continues to hold great cultural significance for the 27 pueblos and tribes whose ancestors once called the canyons, farms, cliffside and mesa dwellings home or who have other ties to the area.—
Alia Beard Rau,
USA Today,
10 June 2026
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During the Early Devonian Period, life on land was still relatively new, and many of the ancestors of modern vertebrates had yet to emerge from the water.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
10 June 2026
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His father then held the seat from 2003 until 2011.—
Claire Heddles,
Miami Herald,
11 June 2026
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Similarly compelling is ‘Home Going,’ in which Clemmons traces her father’s family’s migration to Los Angeles in the 1970s, motivated by the promise of economic opportunities that had previously seemed out of reach for Black people.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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Kubica was using Renault’s own version of a system developed by a rival that boosted a car’s speed in a straight line, using a clever aerodynamic trick that became the forerunner to the Drag Reduction System (DRS) overtaking aid.—
Alex Kalinauckas,
New York Times,
13 Nov. 2025
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Perfected by forerunners such as Fiona Apple and Alanis Morissette, this fall has already seen two music stars gift us with lay-it-all-out-there lyrics.—
Dan Heching,
CNN Money,
28 Oct. 2025
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Santo Domingo responded by creating the Caribbean’s first Synthetic Drugs Unit, strengthening controls of precursor chemicals used to manufacture the drug with digital prescription monitoring, and updating a law to criminalize crypto laundering, dark-net operations, and new psychoactive substances.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
9 Dec. 2025
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People who are malnourished for an extended period of time, have diseases of the GI tract that impair the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins, and those whose diet is low in vitamin A or its precursors can develop a deficiency.—
Mira Miller,
Verywell Health,
8 Dec. 2025
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“Daddy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daddy. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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