father
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-?
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr
Proto-Germanic *fadēr
Proto-West Germanic *fader
Old English fæder
Middle English fader
English father
Inherited from Middle English fader, from Old English fæder, from Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr, from possibly *peh₂- + *-tḗr. Doublet of ayr, faeder, athair, padre, pater, and père.
Inflected forms:
form: fathers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fathers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fathering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fathered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fathered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
pos: noun
examples: My father was a strong influence on me.
The Pꝛouerbes of Solomon: A wiſe ſonne maketh a glad father: but a fooliſh sonne is the heauineſſe of his mother.
When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.
Ah, but how beautiful (my baby boy) is! And he is mine, mine for ever. Even if he hates me he will be mine. He cannot help it, he is made out of me; I am his father.
My personal success or failure is insignificant; the rise or fall of the nation is my responsibility and must not be shirked. Upon introspection, I feel I am firmer than ever in confidence that the Communists will be defeated. These are feelings which will comfort Father's soul in Heaven.
Father, dear father
Will you be proud of me?
I wish I could be
Just like you.
Shepard: The bartender over there?
Liara: The matriarch hired by the asari government to track my movements?
Shepard: She's your father.
Liara: I know.
Speaking to reporters at Melbourne airport, their fathers thanked supporters and praised efforts from the Australian government, according to Nine News.
“There was just this opportunity with a father-son dynamic to really nurture,” she said. “If the boys are starting to learn that they’re not supposed to be girls and they’re not supposed to be too much like their mothers, or too close to their mothers, then the father really can step in.”
gloss: A male who has sired a baby; this person in relation to his child or children.
pos: noun
examples: My friend Tony just became a father.
gloss: A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
pos: noun
examples: So Dauid ſlept with his fathers, and was buried in the citie of Dauid.
Therefoꝛe it is of faith, that it might bee by grace; to the ende the pꝛomiſe might be ſure to all the ſeede, not to that onely which is of the Law, but to that alſo which is of the faith of Abꝛaham, who is the father of vs all,
gloss: A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
pos: noun
examples: Come, father; you can sit here.
gloss: A term of respectful address for a priest.
pos: noun
examples: Bless you, good father friar!
gloss: A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
pos: noun
examples: My brother was a father to me after my parents got divorced.
The child is father to the man.
I was a father to the pooꝛe: and the cauſe which I knewe not, I ſearched out.
So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and loꝛd of all his houſe, and a ruler thꝛoughout all the land of Egypt.
gloss: A pioneering figure in a particular field.
pos: noun
examples: Albert Einstein is the father of modern physics.
gloss: Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
pos: noun
examples: Soon after the announcement of this year's election results, Mereka said that "the father of all battles had just begun." His dispute with Muite goes back to March last year […]
"If UK GDP slows by 1 per cent, there is the mother and father of all recessions. It was exciting, but very bizarre, working in such an environment."
“The Father of All Battles”
On March 23, 1991, a band of armed insurgents attacked the town of Bomaru […]
gloss: Something inanimate that begets.
pos: noun
examples: But may the Sun and gentle weather, / When you are both growne ripe together, / Load you with fruit, such as your Father / From you with all the joyes doth gather: / And may you when one branch is dead / Graft ſuch another in it's ſtead,[…]
gloss: A member of a church council.
pos: noun
examples: In proceeding in this fashion, the fathers assembled at Pisa were following the generally accepted canonistic teaching of the day […]
On the part of the fathers of the synod, over 50 bishops, from every continent, spoke on different ‘group forms’ of the lay apostolate, whereas about 38 fathers made their own interventions in writing to the General Secretary.
Remember that the fathers of Vatican II had rejected the first draft of the constitution on revelation entirely.
gloss: The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
pos: noun
examples: Three generations of file are usually kept, being the grandfather, father and son files.
The file from which the father was developed with the transaction files of the appropriate day is the grandfather.
gloss: To be a father to; to sire.
pos: verb
examples: Well go too, we'll haue no Baſtards liue, / Eſpecially ſince Charles muſt Father it.
gloss: To give rise to.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: Cowards father Cowards & Baſe things Syre Bace;
gloss: To act as a father; to support and nurture.
pos: verb
examples: I good youth, / And rather Father thee, then Maſter thee:
gloss: To provide with a father.
pos: verb
examples: Thinke you, I am no ſtronger then my Sex / Being ſo Father'd, and ſo Husbanded?
The relations of the sexes were so loose and vague that children could not be fathered on any particular man.
gloss: To adopt as one's own.
pos: verb
examples: Kept company with men of wit / Who often fathered what he writ.
Synonyms: ayr
ba
baba
da
dad
dada
daddio
daddy
father
Father
fatherling
old man
pa
pap
papa
papa bear
papaw
pappaw
pappy
Pappy
pater
patriarch
paw
pawpaw
peepaw
pepaw
pop
poppa
poppy
pops
sire
Antonyms: mother
son
daughter
child
Related words: Father
Jupiter
paterfamilias
paternal
beget
grandpa
pater
sire
Derived words: adoptive father
All-Father
allofather
baby father
babyfather
be gathered to one's fathers
biofather
birth father
birthfather
birthing father
bonus father
city father
co-father
co-father-in-law
conscript father
elderfather
eldfather
father-bother merger
Father Christmas
father confessor
fathercraft
father-daughter day
fatherdom
fatherese
father-figure
father figure
fatherfucker
father-fucker
fatherhood
father hunger
father in law
father-in-law
fatherkin
fatherkins
fatherland
father lasher
fatherless
fatherlike
fatherline
fatherliness
fatherling
father longlegs
fatherly
fatherness
father of chapel
Father of Lies
father of the House
father of the nation
father-out-law
Father's Day
fathership
father-slayer
father superior
Father Time
father-to-be
father tongue
forefather
forthfather
foster father
founding father
father to son
gestational father
ghostly father
godfather
God the Father
gold star father
grandfather
great-grandfather
Heavenly Father
highfather
housefather
how's your father
it is a wise child that knows his own father
like father, like son
like father like son
lorefather
merfather
motherfather
nonfather
nursing father
one's father was born before one
penny-father
shrift father
shriftfather
single father
stepfather
step-father
surrogate father
unfather
wolf father
you kiss your father with that mouth
fatherer
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