Father
Meaning of Father
noun
- A (generally human) male who begets a child.
My father was a strong influence on me.
- A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
- A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
Come, father; you can sit here.
- A term of respectful address for a priest.
- A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
My brother was a father to me after my parents got divorced.
- The founder of a discipline or science.
Albert Einstein is the father of modern physics.
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
- Something inanimate that begets.
- A senator of Ancient Rome.
- To be a father to; to sire.
- To give rise to.
- To act as a father; to support and nurture.
- To provide with a father.
- To adopt as one's own.
Information about Father
- The plural form of Father is: Fathers.
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Hyphenation of Father
Father
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- Father is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Father synonyms
Meaning male parent:
Meaning forefather:
Meaning founder:
Meaning don:
Meaning beget:
beget, get, engender, mother, sire, generate
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Translation of Father
Anagrams of Father
Words that rhyme with Father
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