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father Noun 1. a male parent 2. a person who founds a line or family; forefather 3. a man who starts, creates, or invents something: the father of democracy in Costa Rica 4. a leader of an association or council: the city fathers Verb (of a man) to be the biological cause of the conception and birth of (a child) [Old English fæder] fatherhood n Father Noun 1. God 2. a title used for Christian priests 3. any of the early writers on Christian doctrine Father the hatred of one’s father. — misopaterist, n. 1. a community in which the father or oldest male is the supreme authority in the family, clan, or tribe, and descent is traced through the male line. 2. government by males, with one as supreme. — patriarchist, n. — patri-archic, patriarchical, adj. tending to move toward or centering upon the father. See also matricentric.
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father noun 1. daddy, (informal) dad (informal) male parent, patriarch, pop U.S. (informal) governor (informal) old man Brit. (informal) pa (informal) old boy (informal) papa (old-fashioned), (informal) sire, pater, biological father, foster father, begetter, paterfamilias, birth father noun 3. (often plural) forefather, predecessor, ancestor, forebear, progenitor, tupuna or tipuna N.Z. noun 4. (usually plural) leader, senator, elder, patron, patriarch, guiding light, city father, kaumatua N.Z. verb 5. sire, parent, conceive, bring to life, beget, procreate, bring into being, give life to, get verb 6. originate, found, create, establish, author, institute, invent, engender >> adjective paternal Father |
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| UP to the age of fourteen, when my father died, my childhood was the happiest period of my life. In ne house was a father weeping for the loss of his daughter, in another perhaps a mother trembling for the fate of her child; and instead of the blessings that had formerly been heaped on the Sultan's head, the air was now full of curses. SHORTLY after breakfast, at which he assisted with a highly tragical countenance, John sought his father where he sat, presumably in religious meditation, on the Sabbath mornings. |
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