father

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My father recently died and while things like these may trigger some slight pain, that's just life.

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Quick take

a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father); "his father was born in Atlanta"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of father gathered in one view.

noun

a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father); "his father was born in Atlanta"

noun

the founder of a family; "keep the faith of our forefathers"

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`Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for father.

noun

a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father); "his father was born in Atlanta"

noun

the founder of a family; "keep the faith of our forefathers"

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`Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military

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(Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom

noun

a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization; "the tennis fathers ruled in her favor"; "the city fathers endorsed the proposal"

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God when considered as the first person in the Trinity; "hear our prayers, Heavenly Father"

See also: Father, Father-God, Fatherhood

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a person who founds or establishes some institution; "George Washington is the father of his country"

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the head of an organized crime family

verb

make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them"

See also: beget, get, engender, mother, sire, generate

Example sentences

My father recently died and while things like these may trigger some slight pain, that's just life.

Incidentally, I think this is also the first father/son team we've funded.

My family had a major falling out with my father, to the point where myself and my sister had a restraining order against him when I was 7 and she was 9.

This was in June, so it's summer, and the father was supposed to drop the baby off at daycare, but forgot; don't know why... but came and left the baby in the car, and came into work.

Along the way, people I know, including the father of one my children's godparents, were imprisoned for leading peaceful protests urging free and fair elections and a stop to censorship.

[5] Steve Jobs swore in court documents that he could not be Lisa's father because he was "sterile and infertile, and as a result thereof, did not have the physical capacity to procreate a child.

I was worried that Snowden's father was going to continue, through his attorney, to try and dissuade his terrified son from persisting in his convictions; thus, I was preparing to be disappointed in his father's loyalty.

So one guy got some bad indicators that proved to be nothing, who cares?My father did 23 and me, without giving any family medical history and it concluded that my father was at a much higher risk factor for things that his mother was ultimately afflicted with.

I'd encourage people to think of this less as "Wow, she misinterpreted a series of options and got progressively father from her goal state until it was unrecoverable; sucks to be her" to "This is computers as perceived by people who do not make a living making computers work, and we should anticipate them not always understanding our applications and design them to facilitate understanding when possible and make correction easy when not, to the maximum extent possible.