variants also poppa
as in daddy
a male human parent a proud papa of newborn twins

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Recent Examples of papa Rubens relishes his role as a put-upon papa. Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2025 LeBron James is one proud papa! Danielle Jennings, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024 At its heart, this dish is essentially papas con chorizo, a dish in Mexican cuisine that combines potatoes and chorizo. Kelly Brant, arkansasonline.com, 9 Oct. 2024 After all, the 27-year-old artist had grown up listening to the likes of the Stanley Brothers and Flatt and Scruggs on her granny and papa’s records. G. Samantha Rosenthal, Them, 3 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for papa
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Noun
  • Now, he’s evolved into full-time daddy mode, setting off into a quixotic journey to the club in the big city.
    Vita Dadoo, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2025
  • This was a daddy/daughter moment not her and the president.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 10 May 2025
Noun
  • The suspect’s father told us his son had a childhood obsession with pyrotechnics In an interview with my colleague Jenny Jarvie, the suspect’s estranged father, Richard Bartkus, said the boy, then 9, set his family’s Yucca Valley home on fire.
    Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2025
  • In the early 1980s, before Will Harlan was born, his father, H. William (Bill) Harlan, was hiking in the mountains above Napa Valley and stumbled upon a hidden valley.
    Forbes.com, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • The two are joined by Bella's dad, Home Secretary Suri Sharma, and an apparent Syrian arms dealer.
    Matt Cabral, EW.com, 26 May 2025
  • Copeland's dad, Micky, had been killed in a car wreck that March, just as the world shut down because of the covid pandemic.
    Sheila Yount, Arkansas Online, 25 May 2025

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“Papa.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/papa. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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