father




father - noun

  • a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
  • the founder of a family
  • `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
  • (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
  • a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
  • God when considered as the first person in the Trinity
  • a person who founds or establishes some institution
  • the head of an organized crime family

  • father - verb

    father - thesaurus

    beget   begetter   beginner   don   engender   fatherhood   forefather   founder   generate   get   mother   padre   sire