What is "father" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "father": a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

Noun

Hyphenation: fa‧ther

Meaning of "father": make children

Verb

Hyphenation: fa‧ther

Meaning of "father": the founder of a family

Noun

Hyphenation: fa‧ther

Meaning of "father": `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

Noun

Hyphenation: fa‧ther

Meaning of "father": (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

Noun

Hyphenation: fa‧ther

Meaning of "father": a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization

Noun

Hyphenation: fa‧ther

Meaning of "father": God when considered as the first person in the Trinity

Noun

Hyphenation: fa‧ther

Meaning of "father": a person who founds or establishes some institution

Noun

Hyphenation: fa‧ther

Meaning of "father": the head of an organized crime family

Noun

Hyphenation: fa‧ther

Synonyms:

dad, predecessor, ancestor, parent, origin, sire, papa, pop, source, progenitor, forebearer, padre, begetter, pa, daddy, procreator, minister, confessor, pastor, preacher, parson, ecclesiastic, clergyman, cure, padre, reverend, abbé, curé, conceive, spawn, engender, establish, create, originate, invent, procreate, produce, found, beget, generate, trigger, dream up, sow the seeds of,

Antonyms:

descendant, result, mother, effect, end, mother, destroy, ruin, result, finish, halt, kill, stop, end, mother,