Usually means: Male parent of a child.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. father: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Father, father, the Father: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. father: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. father: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Father, father: Vocabulary.com
  6. Father, Father, father, father: Wordnik
  7. Father, father: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Father, father: Wiktionary
  9. father: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. father: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. father: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Father, father, the father: Dictionary.com
  13. father (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. father: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Father (Fullmetal Alchemist), Father (LL Cool J song), Father (Ms. Dynamite song), Father (disambiguation), Father (title), Father, The Father (Strindberg), The Father (Strindberg play), The Father (upcoming film), The father: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Father: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. father: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Father: Rhymezone
  19. father: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. father: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. father: Free Dictionary
  22. father: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. The Father, father: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. father: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. Father: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  2. Father: Dictionary of Symbolism

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Father, father: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Father: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. The Father, father: Medical dictionary
  4. Father: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. The Father, father: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Father: Easton Bible
  2. Father: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. father: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. father: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See fathered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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