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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211 I think he feels a lot of anger towards his father who treated him very badly as a child.
212 She is afraid to tell his father that she has resigned.
213 You'd better seek advice from your father before you reinvest your money with the firm.
214 The court awarded/granted/gave custody of the child to the father.
215 Father is in a bad temper, but let him sleep it off.
216 After he left college[sentencedict.com], his father set him up in the family business.
217 My father repeatedly impressed on me the value of hard work.
218 My father bought a new suit on his charge account.
219 His father was an actor in the Can-tonese Opera Company.
220 My father has just come into a fortune in diamonds.
221 He's a strapping lad — already bigger than his father.
222 To round off her education, her father sent her to a Swiss finishing school.
223 She sprang out of her chair to greet her father.
224 She helped her father to rake up the dried grass into piles.
225 If my father forgets it, I hope you would remind him.
226 My father was unable to talk about the war, it was so frightful.
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227 I stayed by my mother for several days after my father died.
228 The present king succeeded to the throne upon the death of his father.
229 My mother has learnt to play along with the bizarre conversations begun by father.
230 The children had no protection against the tyranny of their father.
231 Her father was shot by someone trying to rob his small retail store.
232 There was a lot of conflict between him and his father.
233 Joanna, 30, spent most of her twenties virtually estranged from her father.
234 His relatives have said he became unbalanced after the death of his father.
235 My father died last year-I wish I could bring him back to life.
236 I want to buy a present for my mother and father.
237 He has spent most of his life being shunted between his mother, father and various foster families.
238 He was filled with remorse for having refused to visit his dying father.
239 A father has the custody of his children when they are young.
240 Perhaps you could coax your father into taking you to the station.
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.