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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151 Her father was a commercial traveller who sold kitchenware.
152 He wheedled money from his father with considerable finesse.
153 My father carries on a trade in silk.
154 As a child he was dominated by his father.
155 He looked like a miniature version of his father.
156 He called out to his father for help.
157 Her father reluctantly consented to the marriage.
158 Her father bequeathed her the family fortune in his will.
159 His father - in - law is a plantation manager.
160 He had come down to begging when his father found him.
161 He was a wonderful father to both his natural and adopted children.
162 His mannerisms bear a strong likeness to those of his father.
163 My father took me to watch the football every Saturday.
164 William was acting as a surrogate father for his brother's son.
165 My father was in ecstasy when I won my scholarship.
166 They accused her of an incestuous relationship with her father.sentencedict.com/father.html
167 I can't see much likeness between him and his father.
168 He hurried along to hand his old father out of the car.
169 She became a lawyer as her father had before her.
170 His father rapped out an answer and then left the room.
171 His father dispatched him to the shop to buy beer.
172 Whatever his shortcomings as a husband, he was a good father to his children.
173 I asked my father to knock me up at six o'clock.
174 My father was a historian of repute. His speciality was the history of Germany.
175 Besides a father she has a younger brother to support.
176 The child remained under the table in a temper until his father came home.
177 You'd better mop up that pool of water on the floor before father sees it.
178 On her deathbed, Miriam's mother reveals that she never knew her father.
179 we always ask for man to innocent as child, but able as father.
180 The father pulled the child back from the river side.
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.