pater

noun

Definition of paternext
chiefly British
as in dad
a male human parent Pater had promised to pay for military school after third form

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  1. dad
  2. father
  3. daddy
Noun
  • All four traveled with mom and dad to the 2018 Australian Open, where Federer participated in the Kids Tennis Day event.
    — Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 8 Aug. 2026
  • His dad — a longtime coach and the author of a hitting manual — is a Cubs season ticket holder who has been taking him to games for almost as long.
    — Chris Placek, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of dad
Noun
  • Armstrong's family bought the home in 1944 after his father had moved them about a dozen times with his job as a government auditor.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The first murder is a girl slicing into her slumbering mother’s neck with a hacksaw; then her brother pounds his father’s face in with a baseball bat.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of father
Noun
  • My daddy’s house is down the road from the studio, because that studio is on my dad’s land.
    — Ivie Ani, VIBE.com, 30 July 2026
  • That had come out somewhere in between the baby drama and the daddy-ramming drama.
    — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 23 July 2026
Definition of daddy
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“Pater.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pater. Accessed 9 Aug. 2026.

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