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Synonyms for father
ˈfɑ ðərfa·ther
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Wiktionary
fatherverb
fathernoun
A male who sires (and often raises) a child.
My father was a strong influence on me.
Fathernoun
To give rise to.
Father Thomas was a good priest.
Fathernoun
A term of address for an elderly man.
Come, father; you can sit here.
fathernoun
A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
fathernoun
Albert Einstein is the father of modern physics.
Princeton's WordNet
father, male parent, begetternoun
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
"his father was born in Atlanta"
Synonyms:
founding father, founder, forefather, sire, beginner, don, begetter, male parentAntonyms:
mother, female parentforefather, father, sirenoun
the founder of a family
"keep the faith of our forefathers"
Synonyms:
founding father, founder, forefather, sire, beginner, don, begetter, male parentAntonyms:
mother, female parentFather, Padrenoun
`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
Synonyms:
military chaplain, founding father, founder, forefather, sky pilot, sire, beginner, don, begetter, male parentAntonyms:
mother, female parentChurch Father, Father of the Church, Fathernoun
(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
Synonyms:
founding father, founder, forefather, sire, beginner, don, begetter, male parentAntonyms:
female parent, motherfathernoun
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"
Synonyms:
founding father, founder, forefather, sire, beginner, don, begetter, male parentAntonyms:
female parent, motherFather, Father-God, Fatherhoodnoun
God when considered as the first person in the Trinity
"hear our prayers, Heavenly Father"
Synonyms:
founding father, founder, forefather, sire, paternity, beginner, don, begetter, male parentAntonyms:
female parent, motherfounder, beginner, founding father, fathernoun
a person who founds or establishes some institution
"George Washington is the father of his country"
Synonyms:
male parent, laminitis, founder, forefather, founding father, novice, initiate, sire, tyro, beginner, don, begetter, tiroAntonyms:
mother, female parentdon, fatherverb
the head of an organized crime family
Synonyms:
sire, founding father, founder, forefather, preceptor, beginner, don, begetter, male parentAntonyms:
female parent, motherbeget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forthverb
make children
"Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them"
Synonyms:
take, cause, make, mystify, experience, develop, draw, have, become, sustain, receive, scram, amaze, stimulate, sire, drive, engender, go, fix, pay back, get under one's skin, stick, suffer, spawn, beat, return, set about, get down, incur, contract, bring forth, grow, dumbfound, fuss, start, arrest, fetch, give, bring, bewilder, mother, induce, buzz off, catch, let, obtain, beget, puzzle, flummox, get, generate, breed, capture, find, baffle, produce, start out, pose, vex, aim, perplex, stupefy, gravel, begin, render, commence, arrive, set out, convey, acquire, come, pay off, bugger off, overprotect, yield, nonplusAntonyms:
mother, female parent
Dictionary of English Synonymes
fathernoun
Synonyms:
male parentfathernoun
Synonyms:
ancestor, forefather, progenitorfathernoun
Synonyms:
creator, maker, originator, author, inventorfatherverb
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adoptfatherverb
Synonyms:
assume the authorship of
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
fathernoun
Synonyms:
pater familias, procreator, sire, patriarch, founder, originator, authorAssociated words:
affiliate, affiliation, filiation, patricide, patricidal, paternalism, parricide, agnate, agnation, patrimonyfatherverb
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How to use father in a sentence?
Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.
I think in general David wanted to celebrate his father, but he did not want to conceal the truth about that relationship either, … One minute, he’s talking about how he idolized his father from the first minute he saw him. But at the same time, he wanted to make clear that his father had not been much of a dad. And that he had been an abandoned child. I also think there was unfinished business with his dad. And part of what he was doing with those [new] songs was saying, ‘I couldn’t have that final conversation with my father, we couldn’t hash it all out. But what I can do is offer this warts and all tribute to him.
A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father.
Anne Frank wasn’t a star pupil. She was a likeable child. Sometimes I’d bump into her in the mornings on her way to school. Then she’d sometimes tell me stories that she’d made up together with her father. They were always really funny stories. She told me a lot about her father, but not much about her mother and sister. I also knew that she wanted to be a writer. Maybe she would have been…
I think it’s a pretty inappropriate question to ask a daughter if she believes the accusers of her father when he’s affirmatively stated that there’s no truth to it. I don’t think that’s a question you would ask many other daughters, i believe my father, I know my father. Soon after, Handler took to Twitter to share an image from a 1996 photo shoot for Vanity Fair that shows her sitting on her father’s lap, caressing his face and staring at him at his Mar-a-Lago estate. Ivanka Trump at the 2018 Winter Olympics. ( Reuters).
Translations for father
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- الأبArabic
- otecCzech
- farDanish
- VaterGerman
- πατέραςGreek
- patroEsperanto
- padreSpanish
- پدرPersian
- isäFinnish
- pèreFrench
- athairIrish
- पिताHindi
- apaHungarian
- հայրըArmenian
- ayahIndonesian
- padreItalian
- אבHebrew
- おJapanese
- ತಂದೆKannada
- 아버지Korean
- patremLatin
- vaderDutch
- farNorwegian
- ojciecPolish
- paiPortuguese
- tatăRomanian
- отецRussian
- farSwedish
- அப்பாTamil
- తండ్రిTelugu
- พ่อThai
- babaTurkish
- батькоUkrainian
- باپUrdu
- bốVietnamese
- טאַטעYiddish
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