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Synonyms for father
ˈfɑ ðərfa·ther

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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  1. fatherverb

    Antonyms:
    son, daughter, mother, child

  2. fathernoun

    A male who sires (and often raises) a child.

    My father was a strong influence on me.

    Antonyms:
    daughter, mother, child, son

  3. Fathernoun

    To give rise to.

    Father Thomas was a good priest.

    Antonyms:
    mother, daughter, son, child

  4. Fathernoun

    A term of address for an elderly man.

    Come, father; you can sit here.

    Antonyms:
    mother, child, son, daughter

  5. fathernoun

    A person who plays the role of a father in some way.

    Antonyms:
    son, child, mother, daughter

  6. fathernoun

    Albert Einstein is the father of modern physics.

    Antonyms:
    daughter, son, child, mother

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. 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 parent

    Antonyms:
    mother, female parent

  2. forefather, father, sirenoun

    the founder of a family

    "keep the faith of our forefathers"

    Synonyms:
    founding father, founder, forefather, sire, beginner, don, begetter, male parent

    Antonyms:
    mother, female parent

  3. Father, 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 parent

    Antonyms:
    mother, female parent

  4. Church 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 parent

    Antonyms:
    female parent, mother

  5. fathernoun

    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 parent

    Antonyms:
    female parent, mother

  6. Father, 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 parent

    Antonyms:
    female parent, mother

  7. founder, 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, tiro

    Antonyms:
    mother, female parent

  8. don, fatherverb

    the head of an organized crime family

    Synonyms:
    sire, founding father, founder, forefather, preceptor, beginner, don, begetter, male parent

    Antonyms:
    female parent, mother

  9. beget, 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, nonplus

    Antonyms:
    mother, female parent

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. fathernoun

    Synonyms:
    male parent

  2. fathernoun

    Synonyms:
    ancestor, forefather, progenitor

  3. fathernoun

    Synonyms:
    creator, maker, originator, author, inventor

  4. fatherverb

    Synonyms:
    adopt

  5. fatherverb

    Synonyms:
    assume the authorship of

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. fathernoun

    Synonyms:
    pater familias, procreator, sire, patriarch, founder, originator, author

    Associated words:
    affiliate, affiliation, filiation, patricide, patricidal, paternalism, parricide, agnate, agnation, patrimony

  2. fatherverb

    Synonyms:
    beget, engender, procreate

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "father":

    dad, daddy, parent, padre, fathers, père, papa, fassia, pater, ilp, santa, pai, ilps, pop, paternal, isa, pa, sr., fader, priest, eerp, -father, vader

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How to use father in a sentence?

  1. Roxie Washington:

    At the end of the day, they get to go home and be with their families, gianna doesn't have a father. He will never see her grow up, graduate. He will never walk her down the aisle.

  2. Joanna Kitlinska:

    But our study shows the same thing to be true with fathers — his lifestyle, and how old he is, can be reflected in molecules that control gene function, in this way, a father can affect not only his immediate offspring, but future generations as well.

  3. Shari Redstone:

    It is my firm belief that whoever may succeed my father as Chair at each company should be someone who is not a Trustee of my father’s trust or otherwise intertwined in Sumner Redstone family matters, but rather a leader with an independent voice, i was honored to nominate Les as the CBS Chair and am delighted to congratulate him on his new position.

  4. Stan Snyzyk:

    They shed blood, sweat and tears, for every piece of fabric in that flag. My father fought under that banner. And to see them like that is an absolute disgrace and it broke my heart.

  5. Ezra Dolezal:

    She said she was starting a new life ... and this one person over there was actually going to be her black father.


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