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Meaning father meaning

What does father mean?
Definitions in simple English

father Noun

— The father of a person is the man who is one of that person's parents. The father of Bill Smith IV is Bill Smith III.

father Verb

— To have children (only applies to males) He fathered six children in six years.

father

— noun (= male parent) a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) his father was born in Atlanta — noun (= forefather) the founder of a family keep the faith of our forefathers — verb (= beget) make children Abraham begot Isaac Men often father children but don't recognize them — 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 — noun (= don) the head of an organized crime family — noun a person who founds or establishes some institution George Washington is the father of his country

Father

— noun (= Padre) '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 — noun (= Church Father) (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 God when considered as the first person in the Trinity hear our prayers, Heavenly Father

Synonyms father synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as father?

father English » English

dad daddy papa uncle male parent sire progenitor priest mother parent founder begetter FB forefather father’s brother beget sir parents my father grandfather generate engender creator teacher patron pastor minister master elder don ancestor Father Dad son reverend produce procreator procreate paw pater owner originator mother’s sister’s husband mother-in-law mister male ancestor lord in-law husband guardian

Father English » English

father Padre Church Father Fatherhood Father-God Father of the Church pops poppa paw parent papa pa male parent daddy-o daddy dada dad Pa Lord God Catholic priest

Topics father topics

What do people use father to talk about?
Social behavior Relationships Kinship Related by birth

Father, mother
Social behavior Religion Religious organization

Religious person
Person Life Birth

Pregnancy
Social behavior Relationships Kinship Related by marriage

In-law
Social behavior Relationships Kinship

Adopt
Social behavior Religion Religious organization

Christianity
States Time Aspectual time

Past
Grammar Name

Name of a person

Conjugation father conjugation

How do you conjugate father?

father · verb

Examples father examples

How do I use father in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I have a friend whose father is a famous pianist.
The university was founded by his father twenty years ago.
My father runs a restaurant.
Where is Father?
What does your father do?
Don't go against your father.
He will take over the business when his father retires.
My father doesn't let me go out alone at night.
Do you know where your father went?
I'll tell you about my father.
The antiques my father left when he died turned out to be nothing but worthless junk.
My father was already at home when I came back.
Like father, like son.
His father would never sanction his engagement to a girl who did not share the same religious beliefs as their family.
You should ask your father for his advice and follow it.
Please give my regards to your father.
Your argument is not any more convincing than that of my stubborn father.
The sooner you return, the happier your father will be.
I think your father hoped you would go to college.
I'd like to see your father.
Nowadays his father goes to work by car.
I visited my father's hometown last summer.
The word processor on the desk is my father's.
You ought to have taken your father's advice.
You may as well follow your father's advice.
You look the way your father did thirty years ago.
Strange to say, he saw the ghost of his father.
My father implied our summer trip was arranged.

Movie subtitles

Who mother dies. Her father has an affair and flees with his lover.
But if I stop aiming for something, my father will have died in vain.
In that war, my father HAD to die!
Just as you lost your father, I have lost my older brother, Clovis.
I shall bury the golden plates, father, and perhaps one day someone very special will find them.
This is where my father asked me to bring you. The others like you should be inside.
Heavenly Father, as we prepare to turn in for the night, we ask that you give us the.
Time to battle darkness You're not my father!
Heavenly Father, why do you let bad things happen?
Oh, Heavenly Father!
Oh, please help me Father! (Down, down thy soul is cast) Please let me wake up!
Elder Cunningham, where on Heavenly Father's green Earth have you been?
But Heavenly Father has shown me I need to stay here!
I know what Heavenly Father wants for me now.
He's going to Egypt with Father Enfantin to build a canal linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. A canal?
Father Enfantin told me about your coming to Algeria.
My father, Si Kaddour, sent me to tell you Emir Abd el-Kader, the leader of the holy war, is ready to broker peace.
My father didn't have a son, so he taught me to read and write like a boy.
My father wants to give me to a friend of his.
My father won't let me marry an infidel.
For the love of your parents, forgive my father.
My father worked for a French lieutenant at the Arab office.
You're my father and mother to me.
He's a good husband and father.
We wouldn't be here if your father hadn't left the army.
This is my father's and uncle's blood.
Frankie, on my father's life, Until you realize our right to share the soccer pitch, we will continue to sting you, and sting you like a swarm of killer bees. Okay, okay, come on, come on.
Gerard is the father of Chris Argent. He's the leader of the hunters, basically.
Is this how we're going to do father-daughter talks from now on? No.
When Allison's father tells her that she's going to be the leader of her family, I think she's probably slightly intimidated by that, but also, I think, a little challenged.
His Majesty trusts father so much.
What did your father say?
I'll treat you like my father, and take care of you.
Gim Hang A's father is currently waiting for her.
Father, what exactly is this?
Your late father and husband was a very close acquaintance of mine.
I'll give away that position to you, Father. She was someone who could have become your Daughter-in-law.
Her father's never even been to visit.
You're her father.

News and current affairs

But revelations about the nuclear weapons smuggling network organized by A. Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's bomb, confirm the danger I predicted back then.
The intellectual father of the euro, Columbia University's Robert Mundell, once famously opined that the optimal number of currencies in the world is an odd number, preferably less than three.
With his white mother and his African father, he does not fit any African-American precedent.
In 2003, his elderly father-in-law was beaten by police agents and forced into internal exile.
After WWII the only two incumbent presidents not reelected were Carter in 1980, who ran in the middle of a recession, and Bush (the father) in 1992, who paid for mediocre economic growth in 1990-1992.
Nor does he seem eager to open a rift with Israel by dragging its government to an international conference, the way his father did with Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir in 1991.
Of course, the language that he used to sell his scheme to the Chinese was very different from the words his father used to present his plans to Hitler.
Of course, the sins of the father should never be visited on the son.
They sought to stage an Olympics that made manifest their image of themselves, and Speer Jr., looking back to his father's mastery of the architecture of power, delivered the goods.
As my father (an old journalist himself) used to say: Freedom of expression provides a right to say what you think, but it is not an obligation to do so!
Once, at a traditional ceremony, in which an infant child receives his tribal name, I watched the proud father and a half dozen male friends dance together before a crowd of well-wishers.
As Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of modern Singapore, once told me, a leader must be a quick learner, test reality, be prepared to change his mind as conditions change, and act calmly in a crisis.
That gap proved the difference between the success of the father and the failure of the son.
Bashar may lack his father's acumen, but he, too, knows a simple truth: peace with Israel is the price to pay.
My father was involved with the United States space program, and we had some moon rocks at home, so I thought it was no big deal.
It was 30 years ago that former Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda, the father of today's prime minister, signed a Peace and Friendship Treaty with China.
GAZA - This was supposed to be my first year of medical school. Instead, I am stuck here in Gaza, in my father's house inside the Jabalia refugee camp, with few options and no way out.
My father is a teacher and owns a children's clothing shop.
We returned to Palestine in 1996 from Saudi Arabia, where my father had been working as a teacher.
When they do, I will probably still be here in my father's house, waiting for the blockade to end.
Until the eruption of the current scandal, the youngest of Murdoch's three children from his second marriage, James, was generally believed to stand the greatest chance of succeeding his father.
Culturally, she feels that she does not have an equal claim on her father's property.
For example, India could enforce a ceiling on wedding expenditure - typically a father's biggest expense associated with his daughter.
It is widely expected that Kim Jong-il's third son, Kim Jong-eun, will be appointed to a key position and be publicly announced as his father's successor.
Ordinary North Koreans, too, evidently seem to view this succession differently from that of Kim Jong-il's inheritance of power from his father, Kim Il-sung.
Bashar Assad remains essentially loyal to his father's legacy.
His son's ascension, unlike that of Bashar on the eve of his father's death, is anything but settled.
Instead, I am stuck here in Gaza, in my father's house inside the Jabalia refugee camp, with few options and no way out.
We learn about all this at the same time as we are told about Father Christmas, his Lapland reindeers, and his sacks full of presents.
At this point, all of them are under threat of destruction, thanks to the influential voice of the Islamist leader Mullah Fazlullah, whose father-in-law, Sufi Mohammad, founded one of the extremist orders.
In India, Rahul Gandhi is waiting in the wings, preparing to step into the shoes of his great-grandfather (Jawaharlal Nehru), grandmother (Indira Gandhi), and father (Rajiv Gandhi).

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