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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121 His father gives him a monthly allowance of £200.
122 Be quiet; don't wake your father up.
123 After the incident his father disinherited him.
124 Ask your father to help you.
125 You've been like a father to me.
126 Father is trying to figure out his tax.
127 Mary tried to turn the children against their father.
128 So, what happened to my father?
129 The children were hushed up by their father.
130 Time is the father of truth.
131 Tom takes judicial proceedings against his father.
132 Your father took out insurance to cover the mortgage.
133 My father was meticulous about his appearance.
134 His father did not approve of his.
135 Graham Bell was the father of telephone.
136 His sick father is in the hospital.
137 He looks rather like his father.
138 He takes after his father in being weak-minded.
139 I learned a lot from my father.
140 She wheedled the money out of her father.
141 James can imitate his father perfectly.
142 He tended a drug store for his father.
143 My father was in a rage last night.
144 Her father scolded her for upsetting her mother.
145 That baby looks just like her father!
146 The little boy imitated his father.
147 The father was given custody of the children.
148 He manages a hotel for his father.
149 Joanna bears a strong likeness to her father.
150 Father Whittaker appeared to be in a jovial mood.
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.