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
  • With their annual Reindeer Roundup holiday event coming up, Meg’s dad gets sidelined after an injury.
    — Rachel LaBonte, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2026
  • His dad had even seen it; a form atop a hill at a local farm, screaming at the moonlight.
    — Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of dad
Noun
  • My 80-year-old mother and 87-year-old father were singing Hindu prayers to celebrate one of the most important holidays of our faith.
    — Raja Krishnamoorthi, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Lozano Garita is the father of her two youngest children, relatives said.
    — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of father
Noun
  • Is class the best lens for understanding Hitler’s appeal, or is daddy worship?
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Still, there’s something to the earnestness with which the movie does finally have its daddy issues and its cetacean ones intersect.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of daddy
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“Pater.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pater. Accessed 1 Nov. 2026.

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