Synonym: breed, bring about, cause, daddy, originate, priest, produce, sire. Antonym: mother. Similar words: grandfather, fatal, fatigue, gather, math, at hand, feather, baths. Meaning: ['fɑðə(r) /'fɑːð-] n. 1. a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) 2. the founder of a family 3. `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 4. (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 5. a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization 6. God when considered as the first person in the Trinity 7. a person who founds or establishes some institution 8. the head of an organized crime family. v. make children.
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8 One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. George Herbert
14 Like father, like son.
16 It is a wise father that knows his own child. William Shakespeare
19 My father had always said that there are four things a child needs plenty of love, nourishing food, fegular sleep, and lots of soap and water---and after those, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect.
22 She pecked her father lightly on the cheek.
23 Father needs a new electronic shaver.
24 The loss of his father was a grievous blow.
25 I was very disobedient towards my father.
26 My father taught me how to do the jive.
27 Her father was an odd man.
28 Tom is like his father in looks.
29 My father accidentally locked me out of the house.
30 My father always used to tell us bedtime stories.
More similar words: grandfather, fatal, fatigue, gather, math, at hand, feather, baths, death, leather, or rather, at home, at heart, athlete, athletic, gathering, beneath, a thought, rather than, Catholic, sympathy, bathroom, breathing, out of breath, the death penalty, at home and abroad, mathematics.