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▸ 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.
Similar:
forefather,
mother,
beget,
engender,
Founding Father,
sire,
beginner,
padre,
Church Father,
generate,
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biological father,
stepfather,
adoptive father,
foster father,
single father,
stay-at-home father,
absentee father,
supportive father,
strict father,
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