father
verb
- be father to; sire; beget
noun
- male parent
- title used by Catholic priests
- monk who was ordained a priest
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈfɑː.ðə(ɹ)/ / /ˈfæ.ðə(ɹ)/ / /ˈfæ.ðɐ/
name
Etymology: See father.
- God, the father of Creation.
- God the Father, who eternally begets the Son.
- One's father.
“I will only do what Father asks.”
- One of the triune gods of the Horned God in Wicca, representing a man, younger than the elderly Sage and older than the boyish Master.
“...and our Lord as Master, Father, and Sage.”
“In respect to our Lord (God), these are the less known Master, Father, and Sage.”
noun
Etymology: See father.
- A title given to priests.
“Father Thomas was a good priest.”
“Father Smith, the social action director of the archdiocese, and Father William Killian, executive editor of the archdiocesan weekly, went to Brownsville, joined the field workers in picketing, attended several rallies, and marched in an eight-mile “pilgrimage.” They were arrested by local authorities for trespassing on private property and sent back to San Antonio. When Fathers Smith and Killian returned to the valley in early 1967 in defiance of Lucey’s specific orders, Lucey removed Smith as social action director and demoted Killian and several other activist priests for violating protocol.”
- One of the chief ecclesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ.
“the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers”
- A title given to the personification of a force of nature or abstract concept, such as Father Time or Father Frost.
- A senator of Ancient Rome.
“Claudius put a stop to these executions, and the Conscript Fathers, repenting, placed Gallienus among the divi , — which was equivalent to the maintenance of his acts.”
“When Romulus had left the earth and had become a god, the Fathers met together and appointed intermediate kings from the senate, to reign in turn each for five days, in the place of the king, till a new king should be chosen.”
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-? Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr Proto-Germanic *fadēr Proto-West Germanic *fader Old English fæder Middle English fader English father Inherited from Middle English fader, from Old English fæder, from Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr, from possibly *peh₂- + *-tḗr. Doublet of ayr, faeder, athair, padre, pater, and père.
- To be a father to; to sire.
“Well go too, we'll haue no Baſtards liue, / Eſpecially ſince Charles muſt Father it.”
- To give rise to.
“Cowards father Cowards & Baſe things Syre Bace;”
- To act as a father; to support and nurture.
“I good youth, / And rather Father thee, then Maſter thee:”
- To provide with a father.
“Thinke you, I am no ſtronger then my Sex / Being ſo Father'd, and ſo Husbanded?”
“The relations of the sexes were so loose and vague that children could not be fathered on any particular man.”
- To adopt as one's own.
“Kept company with men of wit / Who often fathered what he writ.”