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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271 His mother and father thought Jim was a bit of an oddball too.
272 The boy rushed off as soon as his father gave him permission.
273 Her father tried his best to satisfy her demands.
274 His father was a Baptist minister.
275 Father advised me against the danger.
276 His father was quite naturally very proud of him.
277 He was called Robert after his father.
278 His father set him up as a bookseller.
279 The father was punished for kicking his children about.
280 He's the nearest thing to a father I've got.
281 Father cabled the poor villager's son some money for his further study.
282 When the father took the stand today, he contradicted his son's testimony.
283 He is barely on speaking terms with his father .
284 Father came home from the pub very much the worse for drink.
285 I found solace in writing when my father died three years ago.
286 His father put the money in trust for him until he was 21.
286 Wish you can benefit from sentencedict.com and make progress everyday!
287 My father wanted me to become a professional and have more stability.
288 He was old enough to be her father - she looked about thirty to his sixty.
289 She faces the dilemma of disobeying her father or losing the man she loves.
290 My father locks every door in the house as he is paranoid about being robbed.
291 He frittered away the millions his father had left him.
292 Father always fetches the conversation round to his favourite subject.
293 Henry Moore is considered to be the father of modern British sculpture.
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.