Usually means: Father, especially in formal context.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word pater:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. pater: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Pater, pater: Merriam-Webster
  3. pater: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pater: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pater: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pater: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pater, pater: Wordnik
  8. pater: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pater: Wiktionary
  10. pater: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pater: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. pater: Dictionary.com
  13. Pater (film), Pater: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. pater: Rhymezone
  15. pater: FreeDictionary.org
  16. pater: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Pater: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pater-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Pater: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pater: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pater: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Pater: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See patering as well.)

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noun:  (formal or humorous) Father.

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