father

Meaning of father

noun
  1. A (generally human) male who begets a child.
    My father was a strong influence on me.
  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.
    Come, father; you can sit here.
  4. A term of respectful address for a priest.
  5. A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
    My brother was a father to me after my parents got divorced.
  6. The founder of a discipline or science.
    Albert Einstein is the father of modern physics.
  7. Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
  8. Something inanimate that begets.
  9. A senator of Ancient Rome.
verb
  1. To be a father to; to sire.
  2. 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.

Information about father

  • The plural form of father is: fathers.
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Hyphenation of father

fa-ther

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • father is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

father synonyms

Meaning male parent:

begetter

Meaning forefather:

forefather, sire

Meaning Father:

Father, Padre, Fatherhood

Meaning Church Father:

Father

Meaning founder:

founder, beginner

Meaning don:

don

Meaning beget:

beget, get, engender, mother, sire, generate

Meaning :

granddaddy

father antonyms

Meaning :

child, daughter, son, mother

Translation of father

Anagrams of father

freath, hafter, trefah

Words that rhyme with father

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