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Definition father

Etymology

From Middle English fader, from Old English fæder, from Proto-Germanic *fad?r (compare West Frisian faar, North Frisian Faa?er, Low German Fader, Dutch vader, German Vater, Danish fader, Norwegian and Swedish far), from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r (compare Irish athair, Tocharian A p?car, Tocharian B p?cer, Persian ???‎ (pedar), Lithuanian patinas (“male animal”), Latin pater, Ancient Greek ????? (pat?r), Armenian ???? (hayr), Sanskrit ???? (pit?, “father”)).

Noun

father (plural fathers)

  1. A (generally human) male who begets a child.
  2. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
  3. A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
  4. A term of respectful address for a priest.
  5. A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
  6. The founder of a discipline or science.
  7. Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
  8. A senator of Ancient Rome.

Verb

father (third-person singular simple present fathers, present participle fathering, simple past and past participle fathered)

  1. To be a father to; to sire.
  2. (figuratively) To give rise to.
  3. To act as a father; to support and nurture.
  4. To provide with a father.
  5. To adopt as one's own.

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ARE 3
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AR 2
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