Usually means: Men who parent and nurture.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. fathers: Merriam-Webster
  2. fathers, the Fathers: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fathers: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Fathers, fathers: Vocabulary.com
  5. Father's, Fathers, Fathers, father's, fathers, fathers: Wordnik
  6. fathers: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. fathers: Wiktionary
  8. Fathers: Dictionary.com
  9. fathers: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Fathers: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. fathers: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. fathers: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  13. fathers: Wordnik
  14. fathers: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fathers: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fathers: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. fathers: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fathers: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Father)

noun:  A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
noun:  A male who has sired a baby; this person in relation to his child or children.
noun:  A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
noun:  A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
noun:  A term of respectful address for a priest.
noun:  A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
noun:  A pioneering figure in a particular field.
noun:  Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
noun:  Something inanimate that begets.
noun:  (Christianity) A member of a church council.
noun:  (computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
verb:  To be a father to; to sire.
verb:  (figuratively) To give rise to.
verb:  To act as a father; to support and nurture.
verb:  To provide with a father.
verb:  To adopt as one's own.
noun:  (Christianity) God, the father of Creation.
noun:  (Christianity) God the Father, who eternally begets the Son.
noun:  One's father.
noun:  (Wicca) One of the triune gods of the Horned God in Wicca, representing a man, younger than the elderly Sage and older than the boyish Master.
noun:  (Christianity) A title given to priests.
noun:  (Christianity) One of the chief ecclesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ.
noun:  A title given to the personification of a force of nature or abstract concept, such as Father Time or Father Frost.
noun:  (historical) A senator of Ancient Rome.
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